John Hacket was born in London; after Westminster School he attended Trinity College Cambridge (B.A. 1613, Fellow 1614, M.A. 1616, B.D. 1623, D.D. 1628); he was incorporated at Oxford (1616) and ordained in 1618. Hackett was Rector of Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire (1618-24), Vicar of Trumpington, Cambridgeshire (1620), Rector of Kirby-under-Wood, Lincolnshire (1621), Rector of St. Andrews, Holborn (1624-62), and of West Cheam, Surrey (1624). He was admitted to Gray's Inn (1628) and was President of Sion College (1633); as chaplain to Charles I he was involved with the Laud controversies before becoming bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1661-70).
TEXT RECORDS:
1670 ca.[Epigram on Spenser.]
PUBLICATIONS:
Loyolla. A comedy. 1648.
A sermon preached before the King's majesty. 1660.
A century of sermons. 1675.
Scrinia reserata: a memorial [of Archbishop Williams]. 1693.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Westminster School
Trinity College Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
Bachelor of Divinity
Doctor of Divinity
College Fellow
Gray's Inn
Inns of Court
Bishop of Coventry
Bishop of Lichfield
Prebendary of St. Paul's
courtier
clergyman
tutor
dramatist
poet
translator
Lancelot Andrewes
George Herbert
Ben Jonson
REFERENCE:
DNB; NCBEL.
Life by Thomas Plume in Sermons (1675) [portrait]; Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721); Biographia Britannica (1747-66); James Granger, Biographical History (1769, 1824); Biographia Dramatica (1782; 1812); "Hacket's Epitaph translated" Gentleman's Magazine 66 (April 1796) 295; Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Foster, Alumni Oxon (1887-91); Venn and Venn, Alum. Cant. (1922-27); Old Westminsters (1928); Cummings, Spenser: The Critical Heritage (1971).
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