Herbert Croft (bishop)

Herbert Croft (bishop)

Herbert Croft (1603–1691), bishop of Hereford, was son of Sir Herbert Croft, who was the grandson of Sir James Croft.

After being for some time, like his father, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, he returned to the Church of England about 1630, and about ten years later was chaplain to Charles I, and obtained within a few years a prebend's stall at Worcester, a canonry of Windsor, and the deanery of Hereford, all of which preferments he lost during the Civil War and Commonwealth.

By Charles II he was made bishop of Hereford in 1661. Bishop Croft was the author of many books and pamphlets, several of them against the Roman Catholics; and one of his works, entitled "The Naked Truth, or the True State of the Primitive Church" (London, 1675), was very celebrated in its day, and gave rise to prolonged controversy.

His son Herbert was created a baronet in 1671, and was the ancestor of Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet, the 18th century writer.

References

*1911
*"Burke's Peerage and Baronetage"


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