Edward Pelling

Edward Pelling (baptised 1640 – died 1718) was an English cleric and academic, a significant author in the first generation of High churchmen.[1]

Life

Pelling was born in Wiltshire,was educated at Westminster School, and was admitted on 3 July 1658 to Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming a scholar on 14 April 1659. He was elected minor fellow 1664, and major fellow in the following year. He graduated B.A. 1661–2, M.A. 1665, and D.D. on the occasion of William III's visit to Cambridge in October 1689.[2][3]

From 11 May 1674 to the autumn of 1678 Pelling was vicar of St Helen's Bishopsgate, in London; from 1 October 1678 till the close of 1691 vicar of St Martin, Ludgate; from 3 May 1683 till his resignation on 4 July 1691 a prebendary of Westminster Abbey; and from 1691 rector of Petworth in Sussex. Before October 1679 he was chaplain to Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset. He was also chaplain in ordinary to William and Mary, and to Queen Anne. Pelling died on 19 March 1718. His son Thomas was elected from Westminster School to Christ Church, Oxford in 1689.[2]

Works

Pelling was a defender of the Church of England against both Roman Catholics and dissenters. He printed numerous sermons which he preached on public occasions, many before the king or the House of Lords at Westminster Abbey. Besides sermons, and a series of "practical discourses", he also published:[2]

Pelling edited in 1688 the Dialecticon of John Poynet.[2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Scott Chamberlain (1997). Accommodating High Churchmen: The Clergy of Sussex, 1700-1745. University of Illinois Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-252-02308-8.
  2. 1 2 3 4  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Pelling, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. "Pelling, Edward (PLN658E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Pelling, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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