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Robert Bolton (1572 – 16 December 1631) was an English clergyman and academic, noted as a preacher. LifeHe was born on Whit Sunday in Blackburn, Lancashire, the sixth son of Adam Bolton of Backhouse. He attended what is now Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where his father was a founding governor, and was described as 'the best scholler in the schoole'.[1] At age 18, he was admitted in 1592 to Lincoln College, Oxford, where John Randall was. He was a gifted student, but the next year his father's death caused him financial problems. Richard Brett supported him. He transferred to Brasenose College where there was a Lancashire fellowship available, and proceeded B.A. there on 2 December 1596; and was chosen in 1602 as a fellow of the college, taking his M.A. on 30 July.{{sfn|Grossart|1886}} He was not particularly religious at this period, and was unimpressed with the preaching of William Perkins; Bolton said he thought Perkins was "a barren empty fellow". On James I's visit to the university in 1605, he was appointed to hold a disputation in the royal presence on natural philosophy, and his majesty was loud and frank in laudation of Bolton. He was also appointed lecturer in logic and moral and natural philosophy. A school friend named Anderton made a plan with Bolton to travel to a Catholic seminary in Flanders, but this fell through. Under the influence of Thomas Peacock of Brasenose he then proceeded B.D. in 1609, having decided to become a clergyman in the church of England.[2] In 1610, now aged 37, he was presented by Sir Augustine Nicolls, a judge and occasional preacher, to the rectory of Broughton, Northamptonshire. Bolton died, after a lingering sickness of a quartan ague, on Saturday, 17 December 1631, being then in his sixtieth year. He was buried 19 December in the chancel of his own church St. Andrew's, Broughton, where there is a monument. His funeral sermon was preached by the eminent Nicholas Estwick, B.D., and was published.[3] Edward Bagshawe wrote his life.{{sfn|Grossart|1886}} WritingsAnthony Wood commented that he could write and dispute in Greek as in English or Latin.[1] Some describe him as the greatest classical scholar of his time.[4] James Darling, founder of the Metropolitan Library in London, England in 1840, wrote: "He was one of the best scholars of his time, a zealous and successful preacher, and particularly skilled in resolving the doubts of timid Christians. His style is florid and often truly magnificent."[5] In his well-known book, General directions for a Comfortable Walking with God, Bolton discusses subjects like Idleness, Government of the Tongue, Recreations, Visitations, Sleep, and Marriage. In The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide, Bolton argued against separation. Selected publications
FamilyHe married Anne Boyse, and they had five children, a son Samuel Bolton and four daughters.{{sfn|Grossart|1886}} Notes1. ^1 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2806?docPos=1 2. ^Memoirs of the Puritans: Robert Bolton- The life and death of Mr. Robert Bolton., Dr. C. Matthew McMahon 3. ^A Sacred and Godly Sermon, preached on the 19th day of December, A.D. 1631, at the Funerall of Mr. Robert Bolton, Batchelour in Divinity (1635). 4. ^Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Independent School, Blackburn, Lancashire, UK | QEGS – History 5. ^Cyclopaedia Bibliographica: A Library Manual of Theological and General Literature : and Guide to Books for Authors, Preachers, Students, and Literary Men. 2 vols., James Darling, J.W. Bouton, London, 1859 References
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