SHARP, John (1645-1714) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 16 Feb. 1645, 1st s. of Thomas Sharp (d.1671), salter, of Bradford and Dorothy, da. of John Weddal, rect. of Widdington, Yorks. educ. Bradford g.s.; Christ’s, Camb. matric. 1660, BA 1663, MA 1667, DD 1679; ord. deacon and priest 1667; incorp. Oxf. 1669. m. April 1676, Elizabeth, da. of William Palmer of Winthorp, Lincs., 7s. (5 d.v.p.) 7da. (5 d.v.p.). Add. 72496, f. 61; Bodl. Tanner 137, f. 184. d. 2 Feb. 1714; will 9 Dec. 1713, pr. 30 Mar.-25 June 1714. Glos. Arch. D3549/23/2/4.

Offices Held

PC 1703–d.; TNA, PC 2/76. chap. to James II, 1686 – 88, to William III and Mary II, 1689 – 91.

Chap. to Heneage Finch, Bar. Finch (later earl of Nottingham) 1667 – 76; adn. Berks. 1673 – 89; preb. Norwich 1675 – 81; rect. St Bartholomew Exchange 1675, St Giles-in-the-Fields 1675 – 91; lecturer St Lawrence Jewry, London 1679; dean Norwich 1681 – 89, Canterbury 1689 – 91.

Commr. reform of liturgy 1689, Morrice, Ent’ring Bk. v. 175. hospitals 1691, CSP Dom. 1690–1, p. 240. rebuilding St Paul’s 1692, Ibid. 1691–2, p. 266. 1702, Ibid. 1702–3, p. 313. ecclesiastical preferments 1695, Add. 46527, f. 62. 1699, CSP Dom. 1699–1700, pp. 276–7. Union 1702, HMC Laing, ii. 5. Union 1706, T. Sharp, Life of John Sharp, i. 316; Carpenter, Tenison, 392. 50 new churches 1711–d., Commissions for Building Fifty New Churches ed. M.H. Port (London Rec. Soc. xxiii), p. xxxiv. promoting trade and improving plantations 1713. Jnls. of the Board of Trade and Plantations, ii. 469–72.

Parlimentarian

SHARP, John (1645-1714)

Associated with: Ivegate, Yorks.; Kensington House, London 1667–76; Chancery Lane, London 1676–80; Great Russell Street, London 1680–91; Little Chelsea, London 1691; York St., London, Petty France; St James’ Place, London c.1713.

Likenesses

tomb effigy by F. Bird, 1714, York Minster; line engraving by R. White, NPG D21351.

Author

Adams, Beverly

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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