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Hacket, John, 1590-1670
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1590-1670
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HACKET, JOHN, son of Andrew Hacket, Westminster, tailor; b. 1 Sep 1590; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1608, adm. scholar 1609, matr. Easter 1609; 6th in “ordo” 1612/3; BA 1612/3; MA 1616 (incorp. Oxford 9 Jul 1616); BD 1623; DD 1628; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1614 – c. 1621; ordained deacon and priest 20 Dec 1618 (London); Rector of Stoke Hammond, Bucks., 30 Sep 1618 [sic : check]-24; Chaplain to Right Rev. John Williams DD, Bishop of Lincoln, also Chaplain to James I; Rector of Kirkby Underwood, Lincs., 23 Feb 1623; Prebendary of Lincoln 10 Dec 1623 - 1661; Rector of Cheam, Surrey 1624-62; Rector of St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London 31 Dec 1624 – sequestered 13 Dec 1645; Archdeacon of Bedford 4 Oct 1631 - 1661; President, Sion Coll. 1633; attempted to moderate Laud’s zeal; member of Committee for Religion, appointed by House of Lords, and as such pleaded for the retention of Deans and Chapters before House of Commons 1641; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 28 Mar 1642-61; refused to join the parliamentary side, and retired to Cheam during the rebellion and Commonwealth; consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 22 Dec 1661; restored Lichfield Cathedral; bequeathed £1200 to Trinity Coll. Cambridge and all his books to Cambridge Univ. Library; he and Ben Jonson (qv) translated Bacon’s Essays into Latin; author of Loyola, a Latin comedy acted twice before James I, first published 1648, and Scrinia Reserata, a Memorial offered to great Deservings of John Williams DD, 1693; m. 1st 14 Sep 1625 Elizabeth, dau. of William Stebbing, Earl Soham, Suffolk; m. 2nd, Frances, widow of Rev. Dove Bridgeman DD, Prebendary of Chester, and dau. of William Bennet, Yeoman of the Pastry to Queen Elizabeth I; d. 28 Oct 1670. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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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.