Thomas Sprat, bishop of Rochester

(1635-1713)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713 NRA: Sprat Thomas (1635-1713) Bishop of Rochester historian of the Royal Society DNB: Sprat, Thomas (bap. 1635, d. 1713), bishop of Rochester LBT ID: ThSprat1713 VIAF ID: 14887139 LOC ID: n50078848	B/BAP: 1635-09-20 DIED: 1713-05-20
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The author of The History of the Royal Society (1667) and “An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr Abraham Cowley” (1668). He was dean of Westminster (1683) and bishop of Rochester (1684).
REFERENCES TO Thomas Sprat, bishop of Rochester: Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter XI Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 9 Life of Byron: 1824 Found 1: ¶ n1 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 50 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Moore’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 1 (March 1830) 129-43 Found 1: ¶ 54