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Benjamin Whichcote (1609–1683)
Whichcote, Benjamin. A distinguished English clergyman and religious and ethical writer; born in Shropshire, May 4, 1609; died at Cambridge, May 1683. He was provost of King’s College (1644); a leader in, if not the founder of, the latitudinarian school of English divines; a famous preacher, and one of the Cambridge Platonists. His works were all published posthumously. ‘Observations and Apophthegms’ (1688); ‘Moral and Religious Aphorisms’ (1703; new ed. 1753); ‘Sermons,’ etc. (1751).