Jeanne Shami, Adam Richter
ODNB (Article: 21717)
Studied at Eton College, 1623-1631. B.A. (1635/6), M.A. (1639) from King's College, Cambridge, and fellow there (1635-1639). Prebend of Salisbury, 1639-1662. Rector of Thorington, Suffolk, 1640-c. 1646. Chaplain to Lord Goring, to Robert Coke, and to Lord Berkeley at various points during the 1640s and 1650s. Preacher at St Clement Eastcheap during the early 1650s. Granted D.D. in 1661. Became archdeacon of Surrey, canon of Ely, and rector of St Christopher le Stocks, London in 1660. Served as Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 1661 to 1672. Rector of Terrington, Norfolk, 1660-1673. Chaplain to King Charles II, 1660-1673. Also served as master of Jesus College (1660-1662) and later of Trinity College (1662-1673), both at Cambridge. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1667. Bishop of Chester from 1672 until his death in 1686. Rector of Wigan, Lancashire, in commendam, 1673-1686.