Background
He was born at Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, later moving to Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was born at Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, later moving to Trinity College, Cambridge.
Corpus Christi College.
Foreign the American Civil War officer, see Edward Brush Fowler In 1681 he became vicar of Street Giles, Cripplegate, but after four years was suspended for being a Whig. When the Declaration of Indulgence was published in 1687 he successfully influenced the London clergy against reading lieutenant In 1691 he was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester and held the see until his death.
He was successively rector of Norhill, Bedfordshire (1656) and of All Hallows, Bread Street, London (1673), and in 1676 was elected a canon of Gloucester. His friend, Henry More, one of the Cambridge Platonists, resigned in his favour.
