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Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen".
Richard Baxter the English Puritan church leader, theologian and controversialist, called by Dean Stanley "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen" was born at Rowton on 12 November 1615 [9] and is commemorated there by a small stone obelisk, which stands on a triangle of grass at the centre of the village. [10]
Eaton Constantine is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Leighton and Eaton Constantine, in Shropshire, England. It is located just off the B4380 road, between Atcham and Buildwas, near The Wrekin hill. In 1931 the parish had a population of 200. [1] On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Leighton.
Robert Corbet (died April 1676) was an English politician who supported Parliament in the English Civil War.He was a member of the Shropshire county committee, responsible for pursuing the war against the royalists and represented Shropshire in the First Protectorate Parliament.
During this period (1640s and 50s) Richard Baxter the English Puritan church leader, (born at nearby Rowton in 1615) was an energetic campaigner for the establishment of a University, which would only have been the third in England, in Shrewsbury, utilising the then Shrewsbury School buildings, but insufficient funding prevented success. [15]
Richard Baxter (1615–1691), puritan divine, born at Rowton in the parish and baptized at the church. Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet (1709–1796), Royal Navy Admiral, brought up in High Ercall. [9] John Douglas (1721–1807), later Bishop of Salisbury, was vicar of High Ercall 1750–62.
Samuel Fisher (c.1605-1682), puritan minister and friend of Richard Baxter, remembered by the latter as living at Withington before moving to Shrewsbury in 1642. [3]Rann Kennedy (1772-1851), church minister, schoolteacher and poet, was brought up at Withington following his father's death in 1784.
Within days Baxter had left for London and Margaret and her mother quickly followed. They organised to live close to each other amid the rumours of a relationship and her mother's death were in 1661. The following year Margaret and Richard Baxter married in September at St Benet Fink church in what is now Threadneedle Street. [1]