John Tillotson

John Tillotson (October 1630 – 22 November 1694) was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694.

Curate and rector Tillotson was the son of a Puritan clothier at Haughend, Sowerby, Yorkshire. Little is known of his early youth; he studied at Colne Grammar School, before entering as a pensioner of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1647. His tutor was David Clarkson and he graduated in 1650, being made a fellow of his college in 1651. AMS Press, New York, published a modern edition of his works in the 1980s. In his home town of Sowerby, a statue of Tillotson still exists in St. Peter's church and an avenue is named after him in the lower end of the town.

He is buried in the church of St Lawrence Jewry just west of the Bank of England in the City of London.

Thomas Tillotson was his great great nephew.

Works

Several Discourses of Repentance (1700)

A Discourse Against Transubstantiation A Persuasive to Frequent Communion in the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Ten Volume Set of the Works of John Tillotson

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