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Humphrey Gower

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was issued against him requiring him to eject them. Gower defended his Fellows; he refused on the ground that the mandamus should not have been made peremptory in the first instance. Steps were at once taken to indict him at the Cambridge
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Gower died at St. John's College on 27 March 1711, and was buried in the college chapel. By his will he left money towards providing livings for the college, and for scholarships, and left his books to the college library.
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and at Dorchester, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1658, was elected to a fellowship on 23 March 1659, and proceeded M.A. in 1662. Having taken holy orders, he was successively incumbent of
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On 11 July 1679 he was appointed to the mastership of Jesus College, Cambridge, which he resigned for that of St. John's on 3 December following, having in the meantime (1 November) been appointed prebendary of
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issued in the following October, but, the names of the nonjuring fellows having been omitted, Gower again refused to eject them, alleging that it did not appear who they were, and the
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On 29 June 1688 Gower was appointed Lady Margaret's professor of divinity. In July 1693, twenty of the Fellows of his college being
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declined to make the mandamus peremptory. The matter was then allowed to drop.
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A Discourse delivered in two Sermons in the Cathedral of Ely in September 1684
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in 1643. Humphrey Gower was born at Brampton Bryan in 1638 and educated at
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A Sermon preached before the King at Whitehall on Christmas Day, 1684
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Jesus College, Cambridge
St. John's College, Cambridge
Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity
Stanley Gower
Brampton Bryan
Herefordshire
Dorchester
Westminster Assembly
St Paul's School
Hammoon
Dorset
Packlesham
Newton in the Isle of Ely
Fen Ditton
Ely Cathedral
Charles II
Newmarket
nonjurors
peremptory mandamus
assizes
grand jury
mandamus nisi
court of king's bench
John Milner
vicar of Leeds
"Gower, Humfrey (GWR655H)"
public domain
Gower, Humphrey
Dictionary of National Biography

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