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Thomas Sprat (
1635 –
May 20,
1713),
English divine, was born at
Beaminster,
Dorset, and educated at
Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship from 1657 to 1670.
Having taken
orders he became a
prebendary of
Lincoln Cathedral in
1660. In the preceding year he'd gained a reputation by his poem
To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector (London, 1659), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters.
His chief prose works are the
Observations upon Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England (London, 1665), a satirical reply to the strictures on Englishmen in
Samuel de Sorbière's book of that name, and a
History of the Royal Society of London (London, 1667), which Sprat had helped to found. The
History of the Royal Society elaborates the scientific purposes of the academy and outlines some of the strictures of scientific writing that set the modern standards for clarity and conciseness.
In
1669 he became
canon of
Westminster Abbey, and in 1670
rector of
Uffington, Lincolnshire. He was chaplain to
Charles II in
1676,
curate and lecturer at
St. Margaret's, Westminster, in 1679, canon of
Windsor in 1681, dean of Westminster in 1683 and
Bishop of Rochester in 1684.
He was a member of
James II's ecclesiastical commission, and in
1688 he read the
Declaration of Indulgence to empty benches in Westminster Abbey. The suggestion was that he was playing at being
Vicar of Bray. Although he opposed the motion of 1689 declaring the throne vacant, he assisted at the coronation of
William and
Mary. As dean of Westminster he directed
Christopher Wren's restoration of the abbey.
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