Richard Carpenter

Richard Carpenter (1575 – 18 December 1627) was an English clergyman and theological writer.

Biography He was probably born in Cornwall in 1575. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 28 May 1592, and took his degrees of B.A. on 19 February 1596, B.D. 25 June 1611, and D.D. 10 February 1616–17. He was elected to a Cornish fellowship at his college on 30 June 1596, and retained it until 30 June 1606; under the advice of Thomas Holland, the Rector, he studied theology, and became noted as a preacher.

In 1606 he was appointed by Sir Robert Chichester to the rectories of Sherwell and Loxhore, near Barnstaple, and it has been suggested that he was the Richard Carpenter who from 1601 to 1626 held the vicarage of Cullompton. His will, dated in 1625, describes him as pastor of Sherwell (not Sheviock, as per will abstract), Devon.

He died on 18 December 1627, and was buried in the chancel of Loxhore Church, where a monument was erected to his memory. was among his pupils, and through this introduction Carpenter married Susanna, born about 1688, daughter of Sir John Trevelyan. his pupil's youngest sister, and obtained his benefice from Sir Robert Chichester.

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Note: There was no son named William found in the Parish records nor was a William cited in the father's will.

Other people called Richard Carpenter This Richard Carpenter was not the Richard Carpenter of Amesbury, Wiltshire, father of William Carpenter of Providence, Rhode Island.

Nor should he be confused with Richard Carpenter (vicar of Poling). This Richard was at Kings College, Cambridge, in 1622, twice lived in Europe for a few years and was vicar of Poling from 1635 to about 1642. He married in middle age and finally settled not in Amesbury but Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire, where he died about 1670.