John Jeffery (priest)

John Jeffery, D.D. (20 December 1647; 1 April 1720) was an Anglican priest and author.^[1]

Jeffery was born in Ipswich. He was educated at Ipswich School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.^[2] After a curacy at Dennington he was the Incumbent at St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. he also held livings at Kirton and Falkenham. He was Archdeacon of Norfolk from 1694 until his death.^[3]

He wrote

• 'Religion the Perfection of Man', 1689.
• 'Proposals to the reverend Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Norwich concerning the reformation of manners and promoting the interest of true religion and virtue', 1700
• 'Several Discourses', 1701–7
• 'The Religion of the Bible; or a Summary View of the Holy Scriptures, as the Records of True Religion', 1701
• 'Moral and Religious Aphorisms', 1703
• 'Select Discourses upon divers important subjects', 1710
• 'Christian Morals', 1716
• 'The True Notion of Peace in the Kingdom or Church of Christ', 1717^[4]

References

1. National Archives
2. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. ii. Dabbs – Juxton, (1922) p464
3. Horn, Joyce M. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 7, pp. 46–47
4.  "Jeffery, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.