The John Bargrave Collection
Thomas Sharp (c.1634 - 1693)
Minister at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds. Elder brother of the mathematician and astronomer Abraham Sharp. He married his second wife, Faith Sale, in 1673 (Cudworth, 240-1). His friend, Ralph Thoresby, refers to him as the "learned" and "ingenious" Rev. Sharp.Sharp wrote a response to James Owen’s The validity of the dissenting ministry: or, The ordaining power of presbyters evinced from the New Testament and church history (1716) and the question of “Whether Persons who have engaged unto Reformation, and another Way of Divine Worship, &c. may lawfully go unto, and attend on the Use of the Common Prayer-Book in Divine Worship, &c” (Thoresby, 536). In a letter to Thoresby dated 9 April 1696, Jonathan Priestly describes the Sharp’s manuscript as “not … proper to print” and in an earlier letter “too virulent and satyricall” (Lancaster, 46). Relevant locations: Lived at or near Little Horton
Workplace or place of business Mill Hill Chapel
People linked to person: Thomas Sharp was a unspecified James Owen (1654-1706)
Thomas Sharp was a brother of Abraham Sharp (bap. 1653-1742)
Faith Sharp (c.1651-Jun 1710) was a wife of Thomas Sharp