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Authorised form of nameStillingfleet; Edward (c1660 - 1708); clergyman and physician
Datesc1660 - 1708
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSutton, Bedfordshire, England, Europe
Date of birth24 February 1661
Place of deathNorfolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Date of deathJune 1708
DatesAndPlacesBaptism:
Sutton, Bedfordshire, England, Europe (24 February 1661)
OccupationClergyman, Church of England; physician
ActivityEducation:
St Paul's School, London; St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1682; MA 1685; MD 1692); Incorporated at Oxford (1690)
Career:
Held Jacobite views; Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; Professor of Physic, Gresham College, London (1689-1692); practised medicine at Lynn, Norfolk; ordained deacon (1697), priest (1698); Rector of Newington Butts (1698); Rector of Wood Norton and Swanton Novers, Norfolk (1698-1708)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/11/1688
RelationshipsParents: Edward Stillingfleet and Andrew Dobbyns
Siblings: half-brother James Stillingfleet
Married: Mary Ann Stillingfleet
Children: Benjamin Stillingfleet; three daughters
Additional relatives: great-grandson Edward Hawke Locker (FRS 1811)
OtherInfoStillingfleet's marriage was not approved of by his father, bishop of Worcester, and reportedly cost him various academic appointments. This was exacerbated by Stillingfleet's Jacobite sympathies. He was not active in the Royal Society after his election and was never admitted.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; St Paul's; DNB (Benjamin Stillingfleet); Venn; Foster
CodeNA5140
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