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 to Charles I of England [ [http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/ollard_crosse1912.html Charles I, by W.H. Hutton (1912) ] ] .

He was educated at Westminster School and Christchurch, 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 of All Souls College, Oxford in 1612 ["Concise Dictionary of National Biography"] , and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1632. He became chaplain to Edward 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 of William 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 made Bishop 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 ] ] , as Bishop 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 in Carisbrooke 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 of Charles II of England, Duppa was made bishop of Winchester, and Lord 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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External links

* [http://anglicanhistory.org/caroline/duppa/index.html "Project Canterbury" page]