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Richard Hubberthorne (1628 - 1662)

Richard Hubberthorne
Born in Warton, Lancashire, Englandmap
Son of and [mother unknown]
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Died at about age 34 in London, Englandmap
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Biography

Richard was a Friend (Quaker)

Richard was baptised at Warton near Lancaster, Lancashire on 8 June 1628.[1][2] His father is described in his baptism record as of Yealand Redman (now Yealand Redmayne).[2] He was the only son of John and Jane Hubberthorne; he had two sisters.[1]

In the late 1640s Richard joined Oliver Cromwell's army,[1] serving as a cavalry captain[3] and fighting in the battles of Dunbar (1650) and Worcester (1651).[1]

In 1652 Richard heard George Fox speak, and this led him to join the Quaker movement.[1] He went on to become one of the set of early Quaker missionaries known as the Valiant Sixty.[4] In 1652 he accompanied George Fox on a journey which took them across the sands of Morecambe Bay.[5] He travelled extensively in England and suffered periods of imprisonment.[1][3] In contrast to some other members of the Valiant Sixty, he appears to have been mild in the way he expressed things: one of his opponents, Adam Martindale, described him as "most rationall, calme-spirited man of his judgement that I was ever publickly engaged against."[1]

In the mid-1650s, during the controversy involving James Nayler, Richard tried to persuade Nayler to distance himself from those who appeared to be encouraging him to set himself up as a rival leader to George Fox.[6] During the period of this controversy, George Fox had a time of imprisonment at Launceston, Cornwall: Richard unsuccessfully petitioned Oliver Cromwell to be allowed to take Fox's place.[7]

Richard was one of the signatories of the Quakers' 1661 peace testimony,[1] on the drafting of which he collaborated with George Fix.[8]

In 1660 Richard had an interview with King Charles II, in which Charles appeared to have favoured religious toleration.[1][9] He wrote an account of this.[10] But toleration did not follow. In 1662, when Quakers were enduring a period of harsh persecution, Richard was arrested and consigned to Newgate Prison, London.[1]

Richard very soon became ill in Newgate Prison. He died there on 17 August 1662.[11][12] He was buried at Bunhill Fields Quaker Burial Ground, Middlesex.[12]

Works

Richard wrote several tracts.[13] They included:

  • The antipathy betwixt flesh and spirit in answer to several accusations against the people called Quakers (1656)[14]

Some of his works were brought together in a quarto published in 1663.[15]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for 'Hubberthorne, Richard (bap. 1628, d. 1662)', print and online 2004
  2. 2.0 2.1 Search for Richard Hubberthorne on Lancashire Online Parish Clerks website
  3. 3.0 3.1 Elfrida Vipont. George Fox and the Valiant Sixty, Hamish Hamilton, 1975, pp. 70-73
  4. Ernest E Taylor. The Valiant Sixty, 3rd edition, Sessions Book Trust, 1988, p. 41
  5. Norman Penney (ed.). The Journal of George Fox, J M Dent & Sons, 1924, p. 80
  6. H Larry Ingle. First among Friends. George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism, Oxford University Press, 1994, pp 144-145
  7. Isabel Ross. Margaret Fell, Mother of Quakerism, 3rd edition, William Sessions, 1996, p. 55
  8. H Larry Ingle. First among Friends, p 195
  9. Norman Penney (ed.). The Journal of George Fox, p.192
  10. Richard Hubberthorne. An Account of severall things that passed between his Sacred Majesty and Richard Hubberthorne, Quaker, on the 4th of June, 1660. After the delivery of George Fox his Letter to the King, British Library catalogue entry (accessed 3 May 2020)
  11. Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, p. 388, Hathi Trust
  12. 12.0 12.1 England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Burials 1578-1841, LONDON AND MIDDLESEX: Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex: Burials, RG6/499, FindMyPast and accompanying image
  13. British Library catalogue, works of Richard Hubberthorne (accessed 3 May 2020)
  14. British Library catalogue entry (accessed 3 May 2020
  15. William C Braithwaite. The Second Period of Quakerism, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press 1955 (subsequently distributed by William Sessions), p. 418
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for 'Hubberthorne, Richard (bap. 1628, d. 1662)', print and online 2004, available online via some libraries
  • Dictionary of National Biography, entry for 'Hubberthorn, Richard', Vol 28, pp. 136-137, Wikisource
  • Wikipedia: Richard Hubberthorne




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