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Herbert Croft (1603–1691) was an English churchman, bishop of Hereford from 1661.
[edit] Life
Croft was born 18th May 1603 at Great Milton, Oxfordshire, his mother being then on a journey to London, the third son of Sir Herbert Croft and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Anthony Bourne of Holt Castle. He married, before April 8, 1645, Anne Browne, the only daughter of the Very Rev. Dr. Jonathan Browne[1] and Anne Barne Lovelace. Her half-brothers were Richard Lovelace (1618 – 1657) an English poet in the seventeenth century and Francis Lovelace (1621-1675), who was the second governor of the New York colony appointed by the Duke of York, later King James II of England.[2]
After being for some time, like his father who had converted, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, he returned to the Church of England about 1630, and in 1644 was appointed chaplain to Charles I, and obtained within a few years a prebendary's stall at Worcester, a canonry of Windsor, and the deanery of Hereford, all of which preferments he lost during the Civil War and Commonwealth.
By Charles II he was made bishop of Hereford in 1661 and also dean of the chapels royal 1668-1670 from which position he preached to the King. Becoming disillusioned with court life he returned to Hereford and his see.
[edit] Works
Croft was the author of many books and pamphlets, several of them against the Roman Catholics; and one of his works, entitled The Naked Truth, or the True State of the Primitive Church (London, 1675), was celebrated in its day, and gave rise to prolonged controversy.
[edit] Family
His son Herbert was created a baronet in 1671, and was the ancestor of Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet, the 18th century writer.
[edit] References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. - Burke's Peerage and Baronetage
- ^ Jonathan Browne, Doctor of Laws. Browne matriculated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford 13 October, 1620, aged 19, and received the degree of B. C. L. 1624/5, D. C. L. 1630 and L. L. D. He held the following preferments: rector of Shelly, Essex, 1621; rector of St. Faith's, London, 1628; rector of Hertingfordbury, Herts, 1630; president of Sion College, 1636-1637; canon of Hereford Cathedral,1636; dean of Hereford Cathedral 1636; canon of Westminster Abbey 1639. He outlived his wife and died December, 1643, and his will (undated and unregistered) was proved 8 April, 1645 (Oxford Wills; Prerogafive Court of Canterbury, 1645).
- ^ She was also the great granddaughter of Cicely Wilford and the Most Reverend Dr. Edwin Sandys, an Anglican church leader who successively held the posts of the Bishop of Worcester (1559-1570), Bishop of London (1570-1576), and the Archbishop of York (1576-1588). He was one of the translators of the Bishops' Bible. She was also the grand nephew of Sir Francis Walsingham and a 2nd cousin of Frances Walsingham.
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| Preceded by Nicholas Monck | Bishop of Hereford 1661–1691 | Succeeded by Gilbert Ironside |
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| Name | Croft, Herbert, Bishop of Hereford |
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| Date of birth | 1603 |
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| Date of death | 1691 |
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Annotations
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Wheatley: “Dr. Herbert Croft, Dean of Hereford, consecrated Bishop of Hereford, February 9th, 1661-2. He succeeded Bishop Morley as Dean of the Chapel. Burnet says ‘Crofts was a warm devout man, but of no discretion in his conduct; so he lost ground quickly. He used much freedom with the King, but it was in the wrong place, not in private but in the pulpit.’ Bishop Croft died at Hereford, May 18th, 1691.”