Background
Bainbrigg was the son of Richard and Rose Bainbrigg, was born at Cambridge.
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Thomas Bainbrigg
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Education
He was educated at the university there, proceeded Bachelor of Arts in 1654, Master of Arts of Oxford in 1669, became proctor at Cambridge in 1678, there graduated Doctor of Divinity by royal mandate in 1684, and held for many years the posts of fellow and vice-master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
In 1661, was incorporated Master of Arts He was sometime vicar of Chesterton and subsequently rector of Orwell. He died suddenly at Cambridge, and was buried in Trinity College Chapel, where there is a monument to his memory. In a letter to a Friend." The "Letter" does not bear Bainbrigg"s name, but is generally ascribed to him.
lieutenant is a courageous and pungent onslaught upon the accredited author of Reason and Authority.
The pamphlet assailed — an attack upon Tilotson"s discourse against transubstantiation — was attributed to Joshua Basset, for a time master of Sidney College. Bainbrigg thinks that "it is a grief to have an adversary so weak and yet so confident." "He names Pope Gregory and Bede," he adds, "but gives not any ground to think that ever he has read over Bede"s History or consulted Pope Gregory"s Epistles.".
