biography
pronunciation:
[sasheverel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1674–1724)
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| biography:
| Political preacher, born in Marlborough, Wiltshire, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and began to preach sermons attacking Whigs, moderate Tories, and dissenters. In 1709 he delivered a sermon at St Paul's, attacking the Whig minister, Godolphin, with such rancour that Sacheverell was impeached before the House of Lords (1710), found guilty, and suspended from preaching for three years. The Godolphin ministry fell that same summer, and in 1713 he was selected by the House of Commons to preach the Restoration sermon. |
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