MAURICE
,
HENRY
(
1647
-
1691
),
cleric and author
;
if the age recorded (44) on his memorial tablet in
Jesus College chapel
at
Oxford
is correct, he was b. in
1647
, but
Foster
records his age at matriculation ‘at 16,’ in a year which would place his birth in
1648
. He was the son of
Thomas
Maurice
,
B.D.
,
perpetual curate
of
Llangristiolus
,
Anglesey
, and his wife
Sidney
, daughter of
Henry
Perri
(q.v.)
— he was, therefore, of the
Tudor
of
Penmynydd
clan (see
J. E.
Griffith
,
Pedigrees
, 106). From
Beaumaris grammar school
he went up to
Jesus College
,
Oxford
, graduated in
Jan. 1667-8
, was elected
Fellow
in
1670
, proceeded
D.D.
in
1683
,
and was
Margaret Professor of Divinity
in
1691
. He was companion and
chaplain
to
Sir
Leoline
Jenkins
(q.v.)
till
1680
, when he became
chaplain
to
archbishop
Sancroft
. Apart from holding the
sinecure rectory
of
Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, Denbs.
, from
1684 to 1691
, his contact with
Wales
ceased with his school-days, so that it will suffice here to refer to the
D.N.B.
upon him — he was universally esteemed for his character and his scholarship; his debate with
Richard
Baxter
on episcopacy may be mentioned. He d., unmarried, of the
palsy
,
30 Oct. 1691
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
;
-
Y Gwladgarwr
,
1840
, 289-92;
-
[
Hardy
,
Jesus College
, 1899
, 144-5].
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
