Brian Duppa
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Brian Duppa (Lewisham[1], Kent, 1588-1662) was an English bishop, a noted Royalist and adviser to Charles I of England[2].
He was educated at Westminster School and Christchurch, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1609[3]. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1612[4], and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1632. He became chaplain to Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset, who as his patron helped him become Dean of Christchurch.
He was chaplain to Charles I from 1634, and tutor to his two sons[5]. He was regarded as a follower of William Laud[6][7].
Duppa was made Bishop of Chichester (1638). During the Civil War period he lived quietly at Richmond[8], as Bishop of Salisbury from 1641, one the few Anglican bishops to remain undisturbed during the Interregnum[9].
He was involved in the approval by Charles I of the manuscript of Eikon Basilike, reading it to the King in Carisbrooke Castle[10]. In 1660, on the return from exile of Charles II of England, Duppa was made bishop of Winchester, and Lord Almoner[11].
He was the editor of Jonsonus Virbius (1638), a collection of memorial verses for Ben Jonson[12].
[edit] Reference
- Gyles Isham, Justinian Isham (editors), The Correspondence of Bishop Brian Duppa and Sir Justinian Isham, 1650-1660, Publications of the Northamptonshire Record Society Volume XVII
[edit] Notes
- ^ Parishes - Lewisham | British History Online
- ^ Charles I, by W.H. Hutton (1912)
- ^ Margaret Griffin, Regulating Religion and Morality in the King's Armies, 1639-1646 (2004), p. 188.
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ March 10th
- ^ Michael C. Questier (editor), Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640 (2006), p. 494.
- ^ Charles, Prince of Wales, (later Charles II), 1630-85
- ^ Richmond | British History Online
- ^ Robert David Redmile, The Apostolic Succession and the Catholic Episcopate in the Christian Episcopal Church of Canada (2006), p. 183.
- ^ Jim Daems, Holly Faith, Eikon Basilike: The Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings (2006), p. 20.
- ^ CDNB
- ^ §5. Later years. I. Ben Jonson. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
