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Dorrington (1654 - 1715)

Church of England clergyman, at first nonconformist, and then a controversialist attacking nonconformity. He published several religious works as well as an account of his travels through Holland and Germany in 1699. Probably the Dorrington named by Thoresby among the "Clergy and Laity, as more eminent for Learning, Benefactions, or military Atchievements, &c." (Thoresby, 550). Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7843 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Dorrington References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Allestree, Alsop, Ambrose, Ames, Angier, Annesley, Ashe, Ascham, Ashmole; Barnes, Bates, Baxter, Beaumont, Bentley, Bernard, Blackmore, Bladen, Bodley, Bolton, Bonnel, Boswel, Bowles, Boyle, Bromley, Buchanan, Burket, Busby; Calamy, Camden, Cartwright, Castel, Cave, Cawton, Chadderton, Chamberlayn, Chancy, Charlotte, Charnock, Chetwynd, Chillingworth, Clarges, Clark, Clarkson, Collings, Collier, Dodsworth, Dodwell, Doolittle, Dorrington, Drake, (Sir Francis), Dryden, Dugdale, Duport; Edwards, Ent, Evelyn, Elstob; Fairfax, Firmin, Flaherly, Flamsted, Flemming, Floyer, Fox, Frankland; Gale, Du Gard, Gascoigne, Gibson, Gilpin, Glisson, Godolphin, Goodall, Goodwin, Gouge, Gower, Gumble, Gurnall; Halley, Hammond, Hampden, Harley, Harrison, Henry, Herbert, Herne, Heywood, Hickes, Hickman, Hickeringil, Higden, Hill, Hildersham, Hobbes, Hody, Holder, Hook, Hooker, Hopkinson, Howe, Hudson, Humfreys, Hyde; Jacomb, James, Jenkins, Jenkyn, Johnson (Ben.), Johnston; Keith, Kennet, Kettlewell, King, Kirke, Knox (Capt.), Kymberley; Lambarde, Langbain, Lenthall, Le-Neve, Le-strange, Lesley, Lewys, Lightfoot, Linacre, Lister, Littleton, Lhoyd (Hum. and Edw.), Loggan, Lower; Mack-Martin, Madox, Manton, Marshall, Marsham, Marvel, Mather, Matthewes, Mead, Micklethwait, Midgeley, Mildmay, Milner, Molesworth, Molyneux, More, Morice, Morisone, Morgan, Morland, Morton, Morris, Mountague; Nalson, Nalton, Nelson, Newcome, Newcomen, Nowel (Alex. and Laur.), Nye; Ogle, Oley, Olliffe, Otteley, Owen; Pearse, Pearson, Penn, Penton, Pepys, Peters, Petiver, Petyt, Plot, Pococoke, Pool, Potter, Preston, Prideaux, Primrose, Pryor, Purcell, Pymm; Radcliffe, Ralegh (Sir Walter), Randolph, Raye, Rawdon, Rosewell, Rogers, Rule, Rushworth, Russel (Admiral), Rycaut, Rymer; Sacheverell, Sampson, Savile, Scobell, Sedgewick, Selden, Sharp, Sherburn, Sherlock, Shepard, Shovel (Sir Cloudesley), Shower, Sibbald, Sidney (Sir Phil.), Simpson, Skelton, Sloane, Smith, South, Southwell, Spragge, Spelman, Steel, Stephens, Stretton, Strype, Suckling, Sutherland, Swinburn; Talbot, Tallents, Tanner, Temple, Thursby, Thwaits, Todd, Towneley, Travers, Tuckney, Twisse, Tyndal, Tyson; Vernon, Vicars, Vincent, Vyner; Wales, Walker, Waller, Wallis, Walsingham, Wanley, Ware, Washington, Watson, Webster, Wentworth, Welwood, Wharton, Wheatley, Wheeler, Whiston, Whitacre, Whitby, Whitchcote, Whitlock, Whyte, Widdrington, Wild, Williams, Williamson, Wittie, Wolseley, Woodcock, Woodward, Worthington, Wortley, Wotton, and Wren.