Brian Duppa

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EducationWestminster School
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
Ordination history of
Brian Duppa
History
Priestly ordination
Ordained by
Date17 June 1638
PlaceLambeth Palace chapel
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Brian Duppa as principal consecrator
Sheldon, Henchman, Morley, Sanderson & Griffith28 October 1660
Source(s):[1][6][7][8]

Brian Duppa (also spelled Bryan; 10 March 1589 – 26 March 1662)

bishop, chaplain to the royal family, Royalist and adviser to Charles I of England.[9]

Life

He was educated at

, who as his patron helped him become Dean of Christ Church.

He was chaplain to Charles I from 1634, and tutor to his two sons.[12] He was regarded as a follower of William Laud.[13][14] He was involved in the approval by Charles I of the manuscript of Eikon Basilike, reading it to the King in Carisbrooke Castle.[15]

Duppa was made

English Interregnum to retake their Sees at the Restoration.[17][self-published source] He was deprived of the See of Salisbury by Parliament on 9 October 1646, and episcopacy was abolished for the duration of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.[18][19]

In 1660, on the return from exile of

Lord Almoner. He legally took up the See of Winchester by the confirmation of his election on 4 October 1660.[20]

He died two years later.[11] His tomb monument in Westminster Abbey was created by Balthasar Burman, the son of Thomas Burman.[21]

Works

He was editor of Jonsonus Virbius (1638), a collection of memorial verses from various authors for Ben Jonson.[22]

Eponymous places

Two places bear his name given mostly to sports fields: Bishop Duppas Park in Lower Halliford, Shepperton, Surrey[23] and seemingly Duppas Hill in Waddon, Croydon, London reflecting his influence on the ex-ecclesiastical land.

Two sets of almshouses were erected with his funds or endowed with his lands: one with original components; one with 19th-century replacement such housing:

In literature

Bishop Duppa appears in Robert Neil's historical novel "Crown and Mitre", set in 1659. In the last days of the Commonwealth the Bishop, living at a modest house in Richmond, is shown having a clandestine meeting with the emissaries of the exile King Charles II, to discuss plans for the Restoration. [citation needed]

Notes

  1. ^ required.)
  2. ^ Thoyras, Rapin de & Tindal, N. The History of England, continued from the Revolution to the Accession of King George II. Vol. IV. Part II. p. 236 Accessed 14 September 2014
  3. ^ "Duppa, Brianus (at Chichester) (CCEd Appointment ID 201098)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  4. ^ Edward Hasted (1797). "Parishes: Lewisham". The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 1. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  5. ^ Bannerman, W. Bruce (ed.) Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Vol. II p. 42 Accessed 14 September 2014
  6. ^ "Duppa, Brianus (CCEd Ordination ID 56057)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  7. ^ "Duppa, Brianus (at Chichester) (CCEd Appointment ID 201099)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  8. ^ http://www.worldcat.org/title/sermon-preached-at-the-consecration-of-the-right-reverend-fathers-in-god-gilbert-lord-bishop-of-london-humphry-lord-bishop-of-sarum-george-lord-bishop-of-worcester-robert-lord-bishop-of-lincolne-george-lord-bishop-of-st-asaph-on-sunday-28-october-1660-at-s-peters-westminster-by-john-sudbury-one-of-the-prebendaries-of-that-church/oclc/228729369/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true [bare URL]
  9. ^ Charles I, by W.H. Hutton (1912) – Anglican History Society
  10. ^ Margaret Griffin, Regulating Religion and Morality in the King's Armies, 1639–1646 (2004), p. 188.
  11. ^ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  12. Robert Chambers
    , Edinburgh and London
  13. ^ Michael C. Questier (editor), Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550–1640 (2006), p. 494.
  14. ^ British Civil Wars Archived 19 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine Charles, Prince of Wales, (later Charles II), 1630–85
  15. ^ Jim Daems, Holly Faith, Eikon Basilike: The Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings (2006), p. 20.
  16. ^ The Environs of London: volume 1: County of Surrey: Richmond Daniel Lysons, Institute of Historical Research, 1792. Retrieved 22 September 2013
  17. ^ Robert David Redmile, The Apostolic Succession and the Catholic Episcopate in the Christian Episcopal Church of Canada (2006), p. 183.
  18. ^ Plant, David (2002). "Episcopalians". BCW Project. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  19. JSTOR 564164
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  20. ^ Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, 1974, pp. 80–83
  21. ^ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis
  22. ^ The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in 18 Volumes. Vol. 6. "The Drama to 1642, Part Two". 1907–21 I. Ben Jonson. §5. Later years.
  23. ^ Susan Reynolds, ed. (1962). "Shepperton: The hundred of Spelthorne (continued)". A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3 at Shepperton. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  24. ^ Duppa's Almshouses, Pembridge Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1081719)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  25. ^ Bishop Duppa's Almshouses, Richmond Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1253024)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 September 2013.

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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Academic offices
Preceded by Dean of Christ Church, Oxford
1628–1638
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University

1632–1634
Succeeded by
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Chichester
1638–1641
Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Salisbury
1641–1646 & 1660
Succeeded by
Vacant
Title last held by
Walter Curle
Bishop of Winchester
1660–1662
Succeeded by