John Featley

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John Featley (also: John Fairclough , * ~ 1605; † 1666) was a chorister , an Anglican clergyman and divine (Anglican church teacher). He served as a chaplain for Charles I of England . His uncle was the theologian Daniel Featley .

Life

John Fairclough's son was born in Northamptonshire around 1605 . He was accepted as a clerk or chorister at All Souls College , Oxford , and received his BA there on February 25, 1624. After ordination in 1626, he went to St. Kitts as the first preacher in the colony. From 1635 to 1636 he was a curat for his uncle in Lambeth and possibly in Acton . In 1639 he became chaplain for Charles I during the First Bishop's War . When it became clear that the English Civil War would turn out to the disadvantage of the royalists, his uncle convinced him to return to Saint Kitts. He embarked with his wife, children and servants on June 24, 1643 from Tilbury .

In 1646 Featley is found in Vlissingen , the Netherlands . After the restoration , he was appointed Chaplain Extraordinary to the King on June 29, 1660, which gave him the precentorship of Lincoln on August 13 and a prebend in September . In 1661 he became Rector in Langar , Nottinghamshire ; later he was employed in the Vicarage (parish) Edwinstowe , Nottinghamshire. On June 7, 1661 he was introduced to Oxford as DD by royal mandamus .

Featley died in Lincoln in 1666 and was buried in a chapel in the cathedral.

family

Featley's father, John Fairclough, was the older brother of theologian Daniel Featley.

Works

Featley published at least two of his uncle's tracts, along with his biography. Own works are:

  • Sermon to the West India Company [on Joshua i. 9] , London 1629.
  • Obedience and Submission. A Sermon [on Heb. xiii. 17] preached… 8 Dec. 1635 , London 1636.
  • A Fountain of Teares emptying itselfe into three rivelets, viz., Of (1) Compunction. (2) Compassion. (3) Devotion , Amsterdam 1646; (New edition 1683). A portrait is shown on the first edition.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Leslie Stephen (ed.): "Featley, John". Dictionary of National Biography. 1889, Vol. 18. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
personal data
SURNAME Featley, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faireclough, John (GND)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglican clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1605
DATE OF DEATH 1666