Samuel Fisher (died 1681)

Samuel Fisher (c.1605–1681)^[1] was an English Puritan clergyman and ejected minister.

Life

Fisher was the son of John Fisher of Northampton, born late in 1605 or early in 1606. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1623, graduating B.A. in 1627, M.A. at New Inn Hall in 1630.^[1]

He took holy orders, and officiated at St. Bride's, London, at Withington, Shropshire, and at Shrewsbury, where he was curate to Thomas Blake. He afterwards held the rectory of Thornton-le-Moors, Cheshire, from which he was ejected at the Restoration. He spent the rest of his life at Birmingham, where he died, 'leaving the character of an ancient divine, an able preacher, and a godly life.'

Publications

• An Antidote against the Fear of Death; being meditations in a time and place of great mortality (Shrewsbury, 1650).
• A Love Token for Mourners, teaching spiritual dumbness and submission under God's smarting rod, in two funeral sermons, London, 1655.
• A Fast Sermon, preached 30 January 1692-3.

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Fisher, Samuel (fl.1692)". Dictionary of National Biography 19. London: Smith, Elder & Co.