- Brian Duppa
Brian Duppa (
Lewisham [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53786 Parishes - Lewisham | British History Online ] ] ,Kent , 1588-1662) was an English bishop, a noted Royalist and adviser toCharles I of England [ [http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/ollard_crosse1912.html Charles I, by W.H. Hutton (1912) ] ] .He was educated at
Westminster School andChristchurch, Oxford , graduating B.A. in 1609 [Margaret Griffin, "Regulating Religion and Morality in the King's Armies, 1639-1646" (2004), p. 188.] . He was a Fellow ofAll Souls College, Oxford in 1612 ["Concise Dictionary of National Biography"] , andVice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1632. He became chaplain toEdward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset , who as his patron helped him become Dean of Christchurch. He was chaplain to Charles I from 1634, and tutor to his two sons [ [http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/march/10.htm March 10th ] ] . He was regarded as a follower ofWilliam Laud [Michael C. Questier (editor), "Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640 " (2006), p. 494.] [ [http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/charles2.htm Charles, Prince of Wales, (later Charles II), 1630-85 ] ] . Duppa was madeBishop of Chichester (1638). During the Civil War period he lived quietly at Richmond [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45389 Richmond | British History Online ] ] , asBishop of Salisbury from 1641, one the few Anglican bishops to remain undisturbed during the Interregnum [Robert David Redmile, "The Apostolic Succession and the Catholic Episcopate in the Christian Episcopal Church of Canada" (2006), p. 183.] .He was involved in the approval by Charles I of the manuscript of "
Eikon Basilike ", reading it to the King inCarisbrooke Castle [Jim Daems, Holly Faith, "Eikon Basilike: The Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings" (2006), p. 20.] . In 1660, on the return from exile ofCharles II of England , Duppa was madebishop of Winchester , andLord Almoner [CDNB] .He was the editor of "Jonsonus Virbius" (1638), a collection of memorial verses for
Ben Jonson [ [http://www.bartleby.com/216/0105.html §5. Later years. I. Ben Jonson. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21 ] ] .References
*Gyles Isham, Justinian Isham (editors), "The Correspondence of Bishop Brian Duppa and Sir Justinian Isham, 1650-1660", Publications of the Northamptonshire Record Society Volume XVII
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* [http://anglicanhistory.org/caroline/duppa/index.html "Project Canterbury" page]
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