Christopher Ness

Christopher Ness (1621–1705) was an English ejected minister and theological author. He wrote extensively in an astrological vein, though he rejected the comparison with judicial astrology.

Life Born on 26 December 1621 at North Cave, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, he was son of Thomas Ness, a husbandman. He was at school there under John Seaman, and entered St John's College, Cambridge, on 17 May 1638. He graduated B.A. in 1641/2, and M.A.

When 23 years Ness returned to Yorkshire, where he became an Independent preacher at South Cliffe Chapel in his native parish, in Holderness, and then at Beverley, where he taught a school. On Samuel Winter's election as provost of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1651, Ness was chosen as his successor in the living of Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, though not in episcopal orders. In 1656 he became a preacher at Leeds, and in 1660 he was a lecturer under the vicar, John Lake; but clashed on theology. A new edition appeared in 1847 at London and Cambridge.