William Darrell (Jesuit)

Last updated

William Darrell, born 1651 in Buckinghamshire, England and died 28 February 1721 at St. Omer's College, France, was an English Jesuit theologian and writer.

He was a member of the Catholic family Darrell of Scotney Castle, Sussex, being the only son of Thomas Darrell and his wife, Thomassine Marcham. He joined the Society of Jesus on 7 September 1671, and was professed 25 March 1689. [1]

Works

He wrote:

He translated "Discourses of Cleander and Eudoxus upon the Provincial Letters from the French" (1701). Thomas Jones in his edition of Peck's "Popery Tracts" (1859), [2] also attributes to Father Darrell: "A Letter on King James the Second's most gracious Letter of Indulgence" (1687); "The Layman's Opinion sent ... to a considerable Divine in the Church of England" (1687); "A Letter to a Lady" (1688); "The Vanity of Human Respects" (1688). [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samuel Chandler</span> English Nonconformist minister and pamphleteer

Samuel Chandler was an English Nonconformist minister and pamphleteer. He has been called the "uncrowned patriarch of Dissent" in the latter part of George II's reign.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Challoner</span> Roman Catholic priest and writer

Richard Challoner was a leading figure of English Catholicism during the greater part of the 18th century, and the titular Bishop of Doberus. In 1738, he published a revision of the Douay–Rheims translation of the Bible.

John Gother, also known as John Goter, was an English convert to Catholicism, priest, controvertist and eirenicist.

Hugh Tootell was an English Catholic historian. He is commonly known under his pseudonym Charles Dodd.

Louis de Sabran or Lewis Sabran was a French Jesuit. He was associated with the court of James II of England and engaged in vigorous theological debates with both Anglican and Puritan spokesmen.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Smalbroke</span> English churchman (1672–1749)

Richard Smallbrooke was an English churchman, Bishop of St David's and then of Lichfield and Coventry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elizabeth Cellier</span> English midwife

Elizabeth Cellier, commonly known as the "Popish Midwife", was a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England. She stood trial for treason in 1679 for her alleged part in the "Meal-Tub Plot" against the future King James II, but was eventually freed. Cellier was later imprisoned for allegations made in her 1680 work Malice Defeated, in which she recounted the events of the alleged conspiracy against the future King. She later became a pamphleteer and advocated for advancements in the field of midwifery. Cellier published A Scheme for the Foundation of a Royal Hospital in 1687, where she outlined plans for a hospital and a college for instructions in midwifery, as well as proposing that midwives of London should enter into a corporation and use their fees to establish parish houses where any woman could give birth. Cellier resided in London, England until her death.

Thomas Codrington (died 1691?) was an English Roman Catholic theologian. He is chiefly known for his attempt to introduce into England the "Institute of Secular Priests Living in Community", founded in Bavaria by Bartholomaus Holzhauser.

Thomas Jones was a Welsh librarian, who was librarian of Chetham's Library in Manchester from 1845 to 1875.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Comber (dean of Durham)</span> English churchman

Thomas Comber (1645–1699) was an English churchman, Dean of Durham from 1689.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henry Care</span> British journalist

Henry Care (1646–1688) was an English political writer and journalist, or "Whig propagandist", whose speciality was anti-Catholicism.

William Clagett (1646–1688) was an English clergyman, known as a controversialist.

Thomas Fairfax, D.D. (1656–1716), was an English Jesuit.

Edward Gee (1657–1730) was an English churchman, known as a controversialist, and later successively Dean of Peterborough and Dean of Lincoln.

John Kirk D.D. (1760–1851) was an English Roman Catholic priest and antiquary.

Luke de Beaulieu was a Huguenot exile and cleric in England.

Thomas Lathbury was an English cleric known as an ecclesiastical historian.

Abednego Seller (1646?–1705) was an English non-juring divine and controversial writer.

Lime Street Chapel was a Roman Catholic place of worship in the City of London, in use during a short period of the reign of James II and VII of Great Britain.

References

  1. 1 2 Burton, Edwin Hubert (1908). "William Darrell"  . Catholic Encyclopedia . Vol. 4.
  2. Francis Peck, Catalogue of Popery Tracts (1735), ed. Thomas Jones (Chetham Society, 1859)
Attribution