Stanley Gower (possibly baptised 29 March 1600, died 1660) was a puritan minister in the Church of England. Notably he was one of the Westminster Divines.

In 1613 Gower became a pupil of the notable puritan minister Richard Rothwell who later on prepared Gower for university. In 1621 Gower went up to Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar in 1621, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1625.[1] In 1630 he was appointed the curate of Attercliffe, remaining there until 1635. After a period in Hertfordshire, Gower went to London in 1643[2] where he took part in the Westminster Assembly until 1649.

His son Humphrey Gower was born in 1638.

Notes

  1. ↑ Eales, Jacqueline (January 2008). "Gower, Stanley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  2. ↑ Vine, George Robert (1932). The story of old Attercliffe. Ward Bros. p. 247.


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