Background
Thomas Gataker was born on the 4th of September, 1574 in London, United Kingdom.
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Thomas Gataker was born on the 4th of September, 1574 in London, United Kingdom.
Thomas Gataker was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.
From 1601 to 1611 Thomas Gataker held the appointment of preacher to the society of Lincoln's Inn, which he resigned on accepting the rectory of Rotherhithe. He was one of the forty-seven London clergymen who disapproved of the trial of Charles I. He engaged in a public controversy with the astrologer William Lilly, who had mentioned Gataker in an almanac.
Thomas Gataker is best known as the author of Dissertatio de stylo Novi Testamenti (1648) and Cinnus, sive Adversaria miscellanea, in quibus Sacrae Scripturae primo, deinde aliorum scriptorum, locis aliquam multis lux redditur (1651).
In 1642 Thomas Gataker was chosen a member of the Westminster Assembly, and annotated for them the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations.
