Robert Parker (minister)

Robert Parker (c. 1564 – 1614) was an English Puritan clergyman and scholar. He became minister of a separatist congregation in Holland where he died while in exile for his heterodoxy.[1][2] The Revd. Cotton Mather wrote of Parker as "one of the greatest scholars in the English Nation, and in some sort the father of all Nonconformists of our day."[3]

  1. ^ "Parker, Robert (1564?–1614)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  2. ^ K.L. Sprunger, 'Parker, Robert (c.1564–1614), religious controversialist', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  3. ^ C. Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, III, Chap. XXV: 'Scholasticus. The Life of Mr Thomas Parker' pp. 143–45. Reprint, (Hartford, 1855), Vol. 1, pp. 480–488.