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John Bramhall, DD [1] (1594 – 25 June 1663) was an Archbishop of Armagh, and an Anglican theologian and apologist. He was a noted controversialist who doggedly defended the English Church from both Puritan and Roman Catholic accusations, as well as the materialism of Thomas Hobbes.
Bramhall, John (1594–1663), Church of Ireland bishop, was born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, and baptised there in St Giles's church on 18 November 1594, eldest among six children of Peter Bramhall, Carleton, Pontefract.
Bramhall, John, Archbishop of Armagh, was born in 1593 at Pontefract, in Yorkshire. Entering the ministry, he rose to be a distinguished ecclesiastic of the English Church; about 1630 he came to Ireland at the instance of Lord Strafford, and was made one of the King's Chaplains in Ordinary.
Overview. John Bramhall. (1594—1663) Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh. Quick Reference. (1594–1663), Abp. of Armagh from 1661. He went to Ireland as Strafford's chaplain in 1633, becoming Bp. of Derry in 1634. He retired to England in 1642 and to the Continent in 1644.
See Bramhall, John, “ The Catching of Leviathan,” in Works, IV, 548 Google Scholar. Politics demanded practical knowledge of how people really behaved and, like Clarendon, Bramhall rejected Hobbes's pessimistic view of human nature as not borne out by the facts of active public life.
Oct 28, 2022 · Archbishop John Bramhall’s first significant appointment was in 1633 when he was made Bishop of Derry. Bramhall was a Laudian and in his new role he was mandated to bring the Irish Church in a more Catholic direction. His efforts to do so were interrupted by the Civil Wars.
These are the questions around which John Bramhall tried to build his royalist theory of political harmony. In the 1640s political theorists had to decide where ultimate
