Benjamin Lany

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Monument to Bishop Benjamin Laney in Ely Cathedral

Benjamin Lany Script error: No such module "If empty". (or Laney; 1 January 1591 – 24 January 1675) was an English academic and bishop.[1]


Early life

The son of John Laney,[2] Benjamin Lany was born in Ipswich.[3] He entered Christ's College, Cambridge in 1608, graduating B.A. 1612, M.A. 1615, B.D. 1622, D.D. 1630. He became a Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge in 1616.[4]

Career (pre Civil War)

He was ordained on 21 February 1619. After a curacy at Madingley he held livings at Hambledon, Hampshire, Bishops Waltham and Buriton.[5] He was also Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester from 1628.[6] He became Master of Pembroke in 1630.

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He became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1632.

Civil War years

Lany was appointed on 19 June 1639 to a prebendal stall in Westminster, on the king's nomination. As a devoted royalist and high churchman, Lany on the outbreak of the civil wars become the subject of fierce hostility to the puritan party. He was denounced by Prynne as "one of the professed Arminians, Laud's creatures to prosecute his designs in the university of Cambridge", who, when one Adams was brought before the authorities for preaching in favour of confession to a "priest, had united with the majority of the doctors in acquitting him". When the parliament exercised supreme power he was deprived of all his preferments, his rectory of Buriton being sequestered "to the use of one Robert Harris, a godly and orthodox divine, and member of the Assembly of Ministers"Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

In 1643 Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester and Simeon Ashe led a visitation to the University on behalf of Parliament. This saw Lany deprived of his position. He went into exile with the future Charles II of England.[7]

Career (post Civil War)

After the Restoration of 1660, he became Dean of Rochester — he was instituted on 8 August.[8] He became Bishop of Peterborough the same year[9] — he was elected to the See on 20 October 1660, confirmed 17 November, and consecrated a bishop on 2 December 1660.[10] He then served as Bishop of Lincoln from 1663 — elected 10 March and confirmed 2 April[11] — and Bishop of Ely from 1667.[7] He was elected to that See on 24 May and confirmed 12 June.[12]

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1666.[4]

Notes and references

Citations

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  1. ↑ Pepys Diary
  2. ↑ Template:HistoryofParliament
  3. ↑ Soham Town Forum
  4. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  5. ↑ A History of Christianity in Petersfield, Leaton, E. (ed.) (2001, Petersfield, Petersfield Area Historical Society: Monograph Number 4 p17) ISSN 0262-5970
  6. ↑ "English Historical Facts, 1603-1688" Cook,C./ Wroughton,J. p139: London, Macmillan, 1980 Template:ISBN
  7. ↑ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  8. ↑ Template:Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
  9. ↑ Peterborough Cathedral: History of the See
  10. ↑ Template:Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
  11. ↑ Template:Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
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