Worthington, John (1618-01-01 - 1671-11-26)

Precise date of birth unknown, but he was baptized on 8 February 1617/8 in Manchester. Son of Roger Worthington (d. 1649), a draper, and Katherine Heywood (d. 1651). Worthington attended grammar school in Manchester before entering Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1632. He received a B.A. (1635), M.A. (1639), B.D. (1646), and D.D. (1655). Fellow of Emmanuel College beginning in 1642. Ordained in 1646. University preacher at Cambridge beginning in 1647. Master of Jesus College, Cambridge (1650-1660). Rector of Horton, Buckinghamshire (1653-1654) Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire (1654-1663), Barking, Suffolk (1663-1665), Moulton All Saints, Norfolk (1663), and St Benet Fink, London (1664-1666), the latter being destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Vice-chancellor of Cambridge (1657-1658). Subscribed to the Act of Uniformity in 1662. After the Great Fire, he became preacher at Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, but quickly moved on to Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire (1666-1669). After that, he was lecturer at Hackney, Middlesex (1669). He translated and edited various philosophical texts, but didn't write any of his own.