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The son of Thomas Needler, of Laleham, Middlesex, he was born on 29 November 1620.
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Benjamin Needler
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He was admitted to Merchant Taylors" School on 11 September 1634, and was elected to Street John"s College, Oxford, on 11 June 1642, matriculating on 1 July. He was elected fellow of his college in 1645, but appears to have been non-resident, as his submission is not registered. On 8 August he was appointed to the rectory of Saint Margaret Moses, Friday Street, London.
lieutenant is not known whether he was ordained into episcopal orders or not.
He was one of the ministers in London who in January 1648-1649 signed the Serious and Faithful Representation to General Thomas Fairfax, petitioning for the life of King Charles I and the maintenance of parliament. In August 1662 Needler was ejected from his rectory by the Acting of Uniformity.
He went to North Warnborough in Hampshire, where he preached privately till the time of his death. He was buried at Odiham, near Winchfield, on 20 October 1682.
Culverwell Needler (fl 1710), a son, (baptised 5 March 1656 at Street Margaret Moses), was appointed additional writing clerk to the House of Lords on 25 March 1679, and later on clerk-assistant to the House of Commons, a post he retained till December 1710, when he was disabled by palsy.
He published Debates of the House of Commons in January 1704, London, 1721 (2nd ed).
