The Right Reverend

Nicholas Stratford
Bishop of Chester
DioceseChester
In office1689–1707 (death)
PredecessorThomas Cartwright
SuccessorSir William Dawes
Other post(s)Dean of St Asaph (1674–1689)
Personal details
Bornbaptized (1633-09-08)8 September 1633
Hemel Hempstead
Died12 February 1707(1707-02-12) (aged 73)
Westminster
BuriedChester Cathedral
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
Alma materTrinity College, Oxford
Arms: Gules a fess humetty Or between three tressels Argent.[1]

Nicholas Stratford (1633 – 12 February 1707) was an Anglican prelate. He served as Bishop of Chester from 1689 to 1707.

He was born at Hemel Hempstead,[2] graduated M.A. at Trinity College, Oxford in 1656, and was Fellow there in 1657.[3] He contributed to the royalist poetry anthology Britannia Rediviva in 1660, writing in Latin.[4] He became Dean of St Asaph in 1673.[5]

He was one of the founders of the Blue Coat School in Chester.[6][7] It closed in 1949,[8] and its premises, The Bluecoat building, is now a charity hub owned by The Chester Bluecoat Charity. He promoted good relations with the Chester nonconformist Matthew Henry, and supported the Society for the Reformation of Manners.[9][10]

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Notes

  1. ^ "The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester". Cheshire Heraldry Society. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Parishes: Hemel Hempstead | British History Online".
  3. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  4. ^ "Poems Printed in Britannia Rediviva 1660. Indices to Seventeenth-Century Poetry". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
  5. ^ "Esgobaeth Llanelwy | Diocese of St Asaph". Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
  6. ^ "Leisure and culture: Education | British History Online".
  7. ^ "Chester, CHCT0041, Bluecoat Boy". Archived from the original on 21 May 2010. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
  8. ^ "Travel in Chester - England - United Kingdom - Europe - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®". Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
  9. ^ "Early modern Chester 1550-1762: Religion, 1662-1762 | British History Online".
  10. ^ "Cromohs Seminari - Sanna - the Eighteenth Century Church of England in Historical Writing". Archived from the original on 21 May 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
Church of England titles Preceded byHumphrey Lloyd Dean of St Asaph 1674–1689 Succeeded byGeorge Bright Preceded byThomas Cartwright Bishop of Chester 1689–1707 Succeeded bySir William Dawes


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