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- Thomas_Sprat abstract "Thomas Sprat (1635 – 20 May 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 had 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 Relation d’un voyage en Angleterre (Paris, 1664), 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 Chapel Royal, 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.In 1692 a bizarre attempt was made to implicate him in a plot to restore the deposed king James II. This became known as the "flowerpot plot" because it involved a conspirator - a man named Robert Young - forging Sprat's signature on a document, smuggling it into the Bishop's manor and hiding the paper under a flowerpot. The authorities were contacted about the document, which led to the Bishop's arrest for high treason and the searching of his house - the forged document was eventually found where Young had said it would be. However, Sprat was soon freed when it became clear that there was no case to answer.Shortly after his death, his son Thomas Sprat (priest), Archdeacon of Rochester was made a canon of Westminster.".
- Thomas_Sprat activeYearsEndYear "1713".
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- Thomas_Sprat wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bishop Sprat".
- Thomas_Sprat wikiPageWikiLinkText "Thomas Sprat".
- Thomas_Sprat wikiPageWikiLinkText "the late Dean".
- Thomas_Sprat almaMater Wadham_College,_Oxford.
- Thomas_Sprat birthDate "1635".
- Thomas_Sprat birthPlace Beaminster.
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- Thomas_Sprat bishopOf Bishop_of_Rochester.
- Thomas_Sprat dateOfBirth "1635".
- Thomas_Sprat dateOfDeath "1713-05-20".
- Thomas_Sprat deathDate "1713-05-20".
- Thomas_Sprat deathPlace Bromley.
- Thomas_Sprat deathPlace Kent.
- Thomas_Sprat ended "1713".
- Thomas_Sprat enthroned "1684".
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- Thomas_Sprat name "Spratt, Thomas".
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- Thomas_Sprat placeOfBirth Beaminster.
- Thomas_Sprat placeOfBirth Dorset.
- Thomas_Sprat placeOfDeath Bromley.
- Thomas_Sprat placeOfDeath Kent.
- Thomas_Sprat predecessor Francis_Turner_(bishop).
- Thomas_Sprat religion Church_of_England.
- Thomas_Sprat shortDescription "English bishop".
- Thomas_Sprat successor Francis_Atterbury.