Benjamin Lany
The Right Reverend Benjamin Lany FRS |
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Bishop of Ely | |
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Diocese | Diocese of Ely |
In office | 1667–1675 |
Predecessor | Peter Gunning |
Successor | Matthew Wren |
Other posts | Bishop of Peterborough (1660–1663) Bishop of Lincoln (1663–1667) |
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Born | 1591 Ipswich |
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Buried | Ely Cathedral |
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Anglican |
Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge |
Benjamin Lany FRS (or Laney; 1 January 1591 – 24 January 1675) was an English academic and bishop.[1]
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Early life
The son of John Laney,[2] Benjamin Lany was born in Ipswich.[3] He entered Christ's College, Cambridge in 1608, graduating B.A. 1612, M.A. 1615, B.D. 1622, D.D. 1630. He became a Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge in 1616.[4]
Career (pre Civil War)
He was ordained on 21 February 1619. After a curacy at Madingley he held livings at Hambledon, Hampshire, Bishops Waltham and Buriton.[5] He was also Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester from 1628.[6] He became Master of Pembroke in 1630.
By Richard Neile he was appointed to the rectory of Buriton with Petersfield, Hampshire, and on 31 July 1631.[7]
He became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1632.
Civil War years
Lany was appointed on 19 June 1639 to a prebendal stall in Westminster, on the king's nomination. As a devoted royalist and high churchman, Lany on the outbreak of the civil wars become the subject of fierce hostility to the puritan party. He was denounced by Prynne as "one of the professed Arminians, Laud's creatures to prosecute his designs in the university of Cambridge", who, when one Adams was brought before the authorities for preaching in favour of confession to a "priest, had united with the majority of the doctors in acquitting him". When the parliament exercised supreme power he was deprived of all his preferments, his rectory of Buriton being sequestered "to the use of one Robert Harris, a godly and orthodox divine, and member of the Assembly of Ministers"[7]
In 1643 Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester and Simeon Ashe led a visitation to the University on behalf of Parliament. This saw Lany deprived of his position. He went into exile with the future Charles II of England.[8]
Career (post Civil War)
After the Restoration of 1660, he became Dean of Rochester — he was instituted on 8 August.[9] He became Bishop of Peterborough the same year[10] — he was elected to the See on 20 October 1660, confirmed 17 November, and consecrated a bishop on 2 December 1660.[11] He then served as Bishop of Lincoln from 1663 — elected 10 March and confirmed 2 April[12] — and Bishop of Ely from 1667.[8] He was elected to that See on 24 May and confirmed 12 June.[13]
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1666.[4]
Notes and references
Citations
- ↑ Pepys Diary
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- ↑ A History of Christianity in Petersfield, Leaton, E. (ed.) (2001, Petersfield, Petersfield Area Historical Society: Monograph Number 4 p17) ISSN 0262-5970
- ↑ "English Historical Facts, 1603-1688" Cook,C./ Wroughton,J. p139: London, Macmillan, 1980 ISBN 978-1-349-02676-0
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Venables 1885.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Concise Dictionary of National Biography
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- ↑ Peterborough Cathedral: History of the See
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Sources
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Academic offices | ||
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Preceded by | Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1630–1644 |
Succeeded by Richard Vines |
Preceded by | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1632–1633 |
Succeeded by Richard Love |
Preceded by | Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1660–1662 |
Succeeded by Mark Franck |
Church of England titles | ||
Preceded by
Thomas Turner
vacant from 1644 |
Dean of Rochester July 1660–December 1660 |
Succeeded by Nathaniel Hardy |
Preceded by
John Towers
vacant from 1649 |
Bishop of Peterborough 1660–1663 |
Succeeded by Joseph Henshaw |
Preceded by | Bishop of Lincoln 1663–1667 |
Succeeded by William Fuller |
Preceded by | Bishop of Ely 1667–1675 |
Succeeded by Peter Gunning |
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