People of Note
Robert Sanderson
Robert Sanderson(1587–1663) , Bishop of Lincoln, was the second son of Robert Sanderson of Gilthwaite Hall, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Carr of Butterthwaite Hall, both in Yorkshire.
He was educated at Rotherham grammar school and at Lincoln College, Oxford, took orders in 1611, and was promoted successively to several benefices. In 1618 he was presented by his cousin, Sir Nicholas Sanderson, Viscount Castleton, to the rectory of Wyberton, near Boston, Lincolnshire. On the recommendation of Laud he was appointed one of the royal chaplains in 1631, and was a favorite preacher with the king, who made him regius professor of divinity at Oxford in 1642. The Civil War kept him from entering the office till 1646; and in 1648 he was ejected by the Parliamentary visitors. He recovered his position at the Restoration, was moderator at the Savoy Conference, 1661, and was promoted to the bishopric of Lincoln. He died two years later on the 29th of January 1663.
His most celebrated work is his Cases of Conscience, deliberate judgments upon points of morality submitted to him. They are distinguished by moral integrity, good sense and learning. His practice as a college lecturer in logic is better evidenced by these cases than by his Compendium of Logic , first published in 1618. A complete edition of Sandersons works (6 vols.) was edited by William Jacobson in 1854. It includes the Life by Izaak Walton, revised and enlarged.
Sanderson married, about 1620, Ann, daughter of Henry Nelson, B.D., rector of Haugham, Lincolnshire, who survived him.
They had three sons who survived him and two daughters:
- Thomas Sanderson M.d. Of Grantham who had a daughter Elizabeth, who married Richard Middlemore.
- Robert
- Henry
- Katherine
- Mary
His will is in the Harlean Library:
I give to my sonn Henry all the books in my study whether printed or written, that relate to the History of England; or to heraldry; or to genealogies, foreign or domestic; together with all paper books and loose papers of that concernment (which are very many, and would be highly valued of such as delight in that kind of study) either for himself to make use of (if his genius will incline thereto) or else to part with them to some such person as will give a good rate for them; for having used so much care and diligence as I have done to make these collections, I would not have my pains therein too much undervalued.
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