BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
\bˈɛnd͡ʒəmɪn wˈɪt͡ʃkə͡ʊt], \bˈɛndʒəmɪn wˈɪtʃkəʊt], \b_ˈɛ_n_dʒ_ə_m_ɪ_n w_ˈɪ_tʃ_k_əʊ_t]\
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A distinguished English clergyman and religious and ethical writer; born in Shropshire, May 4, 1609; died at Cambridge, May 1683. He was provost of King's College (1644); a leader in, if not the founder of, the latitudinarian school of English divines; a famous preacher, and one of the Cambridge Platonists. His works were all published posthumously: "Observations and Apophthegms" (1688); "Moral and Religious Aphorisms" (1703; new ed. 1753); "Sermons", etc. (1751).
By Charles Dudley Warner
