PATRICK, Simon (Symon) (1626-1707) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 8 Sept. 1626, 1st s. of Henry Patrick (1596-1665), mercer, and Mary, da. of ? Naylor, clergyman, of Notts. S. Patrick, Works ed. A. Taylor (1858), ix. 407-9. educ. Gainsborough Free Sch., Lincs. to 1643, Queens’, Camb. matric. 25 June 1644, BA 1648, fell. 1649-58, MA 1651; ord. 1653, 5 Apr. 1654; BD 1658; Patrick, Works, ix. 409-18, 423-4, 428. Christ Church, Oxf., incorp. 1666, DD 1666. m. (with £2,500) Verney ms mic. M636/28, Sir R. Verney to E. Verney, 27 May 1675. 1 June 1675, Penelope (1646-1725), da. of William Jephson^‡ of Froyle, Hants, 2s. (1 d.v.p.), 1da. d.v.p. d. 31 May 1707; will 22 Mar. – 15 Apr. 1703, pr. 22 Oct. 1707. TNA, PROB 11/497.

Offices Held

Royal chap., 1671 – 87, c. 20 Jan. – 13 Oct. 1689.

Chap., to Sir Walter St. John‡, 3rd bt. 1655; vic. Battersea, Surr. 1657–75; Lysons, Environs of London, iv. 580. rect. St Paul’s Covent Garden, Westminster, 1662 – 89; canon and sub-dean, Westminster 1672–89; CSP Dom. 1672, p. 335. dean, Peterborough 1679–89. CSP Dom. 1679–80, p. 199.

Commr., revision of prayer book 1689, settlement of church in Ireland 1690, Patrick, Works, ix. 532; CSP Dom. 1690–1, p. 158. visitation of hospitals 1691, CSP Dom. 1690–1, pp. 473–4. rebuilding St Paul’s 1691, CSP Dom. 1691–2, p. 266. ecclesiastical appointments 1695, 1699. Add. 46527, f. 62; Luttrell, Brief Relation, iii. 466; CSP Dom. 1699–1700, p. 276.

Trustee, SPCK 1701; mbr. SPG 1701; gov., Charterhouse, 1701. G.S. Davies, Charterhouse in London, 355.

Parlimentarian

PATRICK, Simon (Symon) (1626-1707)

Associated with: King’ Street, Covent Garden, Westminster (from 1662); Abington, Cambs.

Likenesses

oil on canvas by Sir P. Lely, c.1668, NPG 1500; oil on canvas by unknown artist, c.1689, Queens’, Camb.; oil on canvas by unknown artist, Lambeth Palace, 1691.

Author

Adams, Beverly

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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