Poynter, John (1600-01-01 - 1684-01-02)

Poynter was ordained in 1625, having completed his BA at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1618. He was forced out of lectureships in several places between 1628 and and 1639. In 1641, an intervention by Oliver Cromwell and William Spurstow enabled Poynter to be reinstated in the lectureship at Huntingdon, where he remained until 1645. He was vicar of Bures, Suffolk, from 1646 to 1653. After a short stint at Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, Cromwell appointed him to a canonry at Christ Church, Oxford. Although he was a regular preacher around and in Oxford for the next five years, Poynter is not known to have published any of his work or to have preached after his resignation from Christ Church in 1660. He died in New Inn Hall Lane, Oxford.