John Dolben
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| Successor | Thomas Lamplugh |
| Other post(s) | Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Rochester |
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| Consecration | 1683 |
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| Born | 1625 |
| Died | 1686 |
John Dolben (1625-1686) was an English priest and Church of England bishop and archbishop.
Life
Early life
He was the son of
He was educated at Westminster School under Richard Busby and at Christ Church, Oxford.[2] He fought on the Royalist side at the Battle of Marston Moor, in 1644, and in the defence of York, and was wounded twice.[3] By 1646, like most of the Royalists, he had abandoned all hope of victory and resumed his studies.[4] In 1648 he was removed from the Christ Church by the Parliamentary Visitations.[5]
Subsequently, he took orders and maintained in private the proscribed
Bishop
At the
Death and family
At Easter 1686, returning to York from London, he came into contact with a
He married Catherine Sheldon, a niece of Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury; her father was Ralph Sheldon of Stanton, Staffordshire. He had two sons, Gilbert, judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) and first of the Dolben baronets,[10] and John Dolben, a well-known politician. A daughter named Catherine died in infancy. From a letter Gilbert wrote in 1691 it seems that the Archbishop was much troubled in his last years by John's profligate behaviour: he was a confirmed gambler who went through all his money, and then lost the fortune he had gained by marriage to the heiress Elizabeth Mulso. His uncle the judge disinherited him, and by 1691 his wife and children were living on the charity of friends. According to Gilbert, his father's enemies happily seized on this family tragedy as evidence that the Archbishop was a bad or neglectful parent.[citation needed]
The Archbishop Dolben cup presented at the York International 9s rugby league festival is named after John Dolben.[11][12]
In literature
John Dryden, in his poem Absalom and Achitophel, mentions Dolben, describing him as:[13][14]
"Him of the Western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence."
References
- ^ Venables, Edmund (1888). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 15. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 189.
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Disbrowe-Dyve
- ^ Venables p.189
- ^ Venables p.190
- ^ ISBN 9781874317036.
- ^ Venables p.190
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 386.
- ^ Venables p.192
- ^ Venables p.192
- ^ Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 London John Murray Vol.2 p.17
- ^ BBC Sports website, article dated 7/7/09
- ^ York Press Newspaper website, article dated 23/6/09
- ^ University of Toronto website, Representative Poetry Online
- ^ Gutenberg website, The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 9 (of 18)
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