GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON-
1598
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-1743)
Name
Ralph Button
Gender
Male
Denomination
Dissenter
Lived
b. ca. 1612-03-25 d. 1680-10-01 (old)
Linked Sermons
Sermon on John 3:18
(autograph: No )
- preacher
Associated Places
Source of Data (Contributor name)
Jeanne Shami, Adam Richter
Biographical Sources Consulted
ODNB (Article: 4234), AO (Foster)
Other note
Date of birth unknown, but Button matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1631 at age 19. B.A. (1633) from Exeter. Fellow of Merton College beginning in 1633. Proceeded M.A. in 1640. Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, 1641-1648. He refused a D.D. in 1649. Public orator at Oxford and canon of Christ Church, 1648-1660. Ejected from his positions at Oxford at the Restoration.
GEMMS record created
October 15, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024