Richard Mather

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Richard Mather was a prominent 17th-century Puritan minister and early New England clergyman influential in shaping colonial religious life.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Puritan minister
clergyman
person
theologian
birthDate 1596-05-06
birthPlace England
Lancashire
Lowton
burialPlace Dorchester
surface form: Dorchester, Massachusetts
child Increase Mather
Joseph Mather
Nathaniel Mather
Samuel Mather
Timothy Mather
contributedTo Bay Psalm Book
countryOfCitizenship England
deathDate 1669-04-22
deathPlace Dorchester
Massachusetts Bay Colony
educatedAt Brasenose College, Oxford NERFINISHED
emigratedFrom England
emigratedTo Massachusetts Bay Colony
era 17th century
familyName Mather family
surface form: Mather
givenName Richard
grandfatherOf Cotton Mather
influenced Congregationalism
surface form: New England Congregationalism

Puritan church governance in New England
knownFor influence on colonial religious life
leading Puritan minister in New England
psalm translations
language English
memberOf Puritanism
surface form: Puritans
notableWork Bay Psalm Book
occupation clergyman
minister
theologian
partOf early New England clergy
positionHeld minister at Dorchester church
relative Cotton Mather
religion Protestantism
Puritanism
religiousTradition Calvinism
residence Dorchester
surface form: Dorchester, Massachusetts
spouse Katherine Hoult
wrote church polity treatises
yearOfEmigration 1635

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Increase Mather father Richard Mather
Nathaniel Mather father Richard Mather
Cotton Mather grandfather Richard Mather
Mather family hasNotableMember Richard Mather