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South, Robert 1634-1716
English High Church theologian and preacher
Born in Hackney, London, he was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford. He was for a time in sympathy with Presbyterianism, but in 1658 he received orders secretly and in 1660 was appointed public orator of Oxford. His sermons, which are full of mockery of the Puritans, delighted the restored royalists. He became domestic chaplain to Edward, 1st Earl Clarendon, prebendary of Westminster (1663), canon of Christ Church (1670) and rector at Islip (1678), but his outspokenness prevented further preferment. He aquiesced in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, but strongly opposed the scheme of Comprehension. He published Sermons on Several Occasions (new edition 1878).
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