Simon Patrick
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English theologian and bishop
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Simon Patrick was an English theologian and bishop. Life He was born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, eldest son of Henry Patrick, a wealthy merchant, on 8 September 1626, and attended Boston Grammar School. He entered Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1644, and after taking orders in 1651 became successively chaplain to Sir Walter St. John and vicar of Battersea, Surrey. He was afterwards preferred to the rectory of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, London, where he continued to labour during the plague.