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Richard Smalbroke (1672–1749) was an English churchman, bishop of St Davids and then bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. ==Life== The son of Samuel Smalbroke (died 21 May 1701) of Rowington, Warwickshire, by his wife Elizabeth (died 5 May 1722), he was born at 19 High Street, Birmingham. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 15 June 1688, aged 15; and was elected demy of Magdalen College in the so-called "golden election" of 1689. He graduated B.A. 1692; M.A. 26 January 1694–5; was elected fellow 1698, and became B.D. on 27 January 1707, and D.D. 1708. In 1709 he was appointed chaplain to Thomas Tenison, archbishop of Canterbury, who gave him (1709) the rectory of Hadleigh, Suffolk; this he held till 1712. He was canon of Hereford Cathedral 1710; vicar of Lugwardine, Herefordshire, 1711; treasurer of Llandaff, 1712, the last to hold that office; and rector of Withington, Gloucestershire, 1716. In 1723 he was elected, and in 1724 consecrated, to the see of St Davids. He was an active prelate, enforced the reading of the Athanasian creed, and is said to have learned the Welsh language sufficiently to be able to officiate in it. In a charge delivered in August 1728 he commended the treatise on the authority of Scripture by Faustus Socinus; with the result that this work was translated into English by an Anglican clergyman, Edward Coombe, and published in 1731 with a dedication to Queen Caroline of Ansbach. In 1731 Smalbroke was translated to the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. Two years later he contributed to the new buildings of Magdalen College. Samuel Pegge the elder accused him of filling the church at Lichfield with his relations. He died on 22 December 1749, and was buried in Lichfield Cathedral. A portrait, painted by T. Murray, was engraved by George Vertue in 1733. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Smalbroke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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