Thomas Sprat (1635 – 20 May 1713), English divine, was born at Beaminster, Dorset, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship from 1657 to 1670. Having taken orders he became a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral in 1660. In the preceding year he had gained a reputation by his poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector (London, 1659), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters.
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- Thomas Sprat (1635 – 20 May 1713), English divine, was born at Beaminster, Dorset, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship from 1657 to 1670. Having taken orders he became a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral in 1660. In the preceding year he had gained a reputation by his poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector (London, 1659), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters. His chief prose works are the Observations upon Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England (London, 1665), a satirical reply to the strictures on Englishmen in Samuel de Sorbière's book Relation d’un voyage en Angleterre (Paris, 1664), and a History of the Royal Society of London (London, 1667), which Sprat had helped to found. The History of the Royal Society elaborates the scientific purposes of the academy and outlines some of the strictures of scientific writing that set the modern standards for clarity and conciseness. In 1669 he became canon of Westminster Abbey, and in 1670 rector of Uffington, Lincolnshire. He was chaplain to Charles II in 1676, curate and lecturer at St. Margaret's, Westminster, in 1679, canon of Windsor in 1681, dean of Westminster in 1683 and Bishop of Rochester in 1684. He was a member of James II's ecclesiastical commission, and in 1688 he read the Declaration of Indulgence to empty benches in Westminster Abbey. The suggestion was that he was playing at being Vicar of Bray. Although he opposed the motion of 1689 declaring the throne vacant, he assisted at the coronation of William and Mary. As dean of Westminster he directed Christopher Wren's restoration of the abbey. In 1692 a bizarre attempt was made to implicate him in a plot to restore the deposed king James II. This became known as the "flowerplot plot" because it involved a conspirator - a man named Robert Young - forging Sprats signature on a document, smuggling it into the Bishop's manor and hiding the paper under a flowerpot. The authorities were contacted about the document which led to the Bishop's arrest for high treason and the searching of his house - the forged document was eventually found where Young had said it would be. However Sprat was soon freed when it became clear that there was no case to answer.
- Thomas Sprat war ein englischer Autor und Bischof von Rochester 1684.
- Thomas Sprat fue un científico inglés de finales del siglo XVII. Tomó los hábitos y fue destinado en 1660 a la catedral de Lincoln en Lincolnshire. El año anterior había adquirido reputación de ser un hombre de letras gracias a su poema To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, dedicado a Oliver Cromwell. Sus principales obras en prosa son Observations upon Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England, respuesta en tono de sátira a un escrito de Samuel de Sorbière sobre los ingleses y la History of the Royal Society of London, historia sobre una institución a la que Sprat había ayudado. Este texto resume brillantemente las exigecias del método científico que tanto prosperó en el siglo XVIII. En 1669 se convirtió en canónigo de la abadía de Westminster y en 1670 en rector en Uffington. Siguió siendo capellán tras la muerte de Carlos II de Inglaterra.
- Thomas Sprat est un ecclésiastique, un poète et un scientifique anglais de la fin du XVII siècle. Après être rentré dans les ordres, Sprat devint prébendaire en 1660 à la cathédrale de Lincoln, dans le Lincolnshire. L'année précédente, l'homme avait acquis une réputation d'homme de lettres grâce à son poème To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, dédié comme son nom l'indique au Lord Protecteur Oliver Cromwell. Ses principales œuvres en prose sont les Observations sur le Voyage en Angleterre de Monsieur de Sorbier en 1665 (une réponse satirique à l'écrit corrosif de Samuel Sorbière sur les Anglais) et une Histoire de la Royal Society de Londres en 1667, une institution que Sprat avait aidé à fonder. Ce texte, à lui seul, résume brillamment les principales exigences de la rationalité scientifique, qui allait tant prospérer au XVIII siècle. En 1669, Sprat devint chanoine à l'abbaye de Westminster, et en 1670 recteur à Uffington, dans le Lincolnshire. Il fut ensuite chapelain auprès de Charles II d'Angleterre, curé à l'église Sainte-Margaret de Westminster, chanoine à Windsor dans le Berkshire, doyen de Westminster et évêque de Rochester dans le Kent.
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- Thomas Sprat (1635 – 20 May 1713), English divine, was born at Beaminster, Dorset, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship from 1657 to 1670. Having taken orders he became a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral in 1660. In the preceding year he had gained a reputation by his poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector (London, 1659), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters.
- Thomas Sprat war ein englischer Autor und Bischof von Rochester 1684.
- Thomas Sprat fue un científico inglés de finales del siglo XVII. Tomó los hábitos y fue destinado en 1660 a la catedral de Lincoln en Lincolnshire. El año anterior había adquirido reputación de ser un hombre de letras gracias a su poema To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, dedicado a Oliver Cromwell.
- Thomas Sprat est un ecclésiastique, un poète et un scientifique anglais de la fin du XVII siècle. Après être rentré dans les ordres, Sprat devint prébendaire en 1660 à la cathédrale de Lincoln, dans le Lincolnshire. L'année précédente, l'homme avait acquis une réputation d'homme de lettres grâce à son poème To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, dédié comme son nom l'indique au Lord Protecteur Oliver Cromwell.
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