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BURGESS, DANIEL, son of Rev. Daniel Burgess, Rector of Collingbourne Ducis, Wilts.; b.; adm. 1654 (Williams, Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, 1864, i, 64, note); Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 21 Feb 1661/2, aged 15, but did not graduate as he refused to conform; in Ireland 1667-74; Master of Charleville School, co. Cork; ordained priest by the Dublin presbytery; imprisoned in Marlborough Gaol 1674, for preaching in the neighbourhood; came up to London in 1685; minister to a large nonconformist congregation, which met successively in Brydges Street, Covent Garden, Russell Court, Drury Lane, and at a meeting-house built for him in New Court, Carey Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; this building was gutted by the Sacheverell mob 1 Mar 1710, and subsequently repaired by the government; of great fame as a preacher, his quaintness and vivacity being new in a London pulpit; alluded to in nos. 62 and 228 of The Tatler; author, sermons and devotional books; m. Mrs Briscoe; d. 26 Jan 1713. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.