biography
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Whichcote, Benjamin
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| lived:
| (1609–83)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and theologian, born in Stoke, Shropshire, WC England, UK. He was a student at Cambridge, a fellow of Emmanuel College in 1633, and was ordained and appointed Sunday Afternoon Lecturer in Trinity Church (1636–56). He became provost of King's College in 1644, but lost the post at the Restoration in 1660 by order of Charles II. He published nothing in his lifetime, but is regarded as the spiritual founder of the ‘Cambridge Platonists’. |
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