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Richard Mather. Illustration of Richard Mather by John Foster), c. 1675. Richard Mather (1596 – 22 April 1669) was a New England Puritan minister in colonial Boston. He was father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather, both celebrated Boston theologians .
Richard Mather was an English-born American Congregational minister, father of Increase Mather and three other Puritan ministers. After joining the Great Migration of Puritans from England to New England (1635), he was elected “teacher” minister at Dorchester, Mass., and became locally celebrated.
Richard Mather (1596-1669), progenitor of a family dynasty of New England clergymen, was born in Lowton, Lancashire, England, in 1596, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and ministered to a church in Toxteth Park (Liverpool), before being twice suspended for nonconformity to the Anglican Church Discipline by Richard Neile, archbishop of York.
Electronic Texts in American Studies. The Life and Death of That Reverend Man of God, Richard Mather, Teacher of the Church in Dorchester in New-England. A facsimile Reprint with an introduction ... Increase Mather. Benjamin Franklin V, Ohio University.
Richard Mather. —This excellent divine was born at Lowton in Lancashire, in the year 1596, and educated first at Winwick school in that county, then at Brazen-nose college, Oxford. Afterwards he was chosen minister and schoolmaster at Toxteth-park, near Liverpool.
Richard Mather was a British Puritan clergyman who fled to Massachusetts in 1635 and became the pastor of Dorchester. He helped to write the Cambridge Platform and the Bay Psalm Book.
Rev. Richard Mather 1596-1669), the patriarch of the Mather dynasty, was born in Lancashire, England to Thomas Mather and Margarite Abrams of Lowton, England. They insisted that Richard attend grammar …
