Ralph Brownrigg or Brownrig (1592–1659) was bishop of Exeter from 1642 to 1646. He spent that time largely in exile from his see, which he perhaps never visited.Ralph Brownrigg He did find a position there for Seth Ward.The Galileo Project He was both a Royalist in politics, and a Calvinist in religion,...a conforming Puritan in close theological agreement with the now dominant faction, . an unusual combination of the period. Brownrigg opposed Laudianism in Cambridge during the 1630s and at the Short Parliament Convocation of 1640. Nominated to the Westminster Assembly, he apparently took no part in it.
Life
He studied at Ipswich and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He was awarded an M.A. in 1614 and a D.D. in 1626.Concise Dictionary of National Biography He was Rector of St Margaret of Antioch, Barley, Hertfordshire, in 1621.St Margaret of Antioch, Barley « United Benefice of Barkway, Buckland and Reed with Barley
He was Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge,From 1631 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, but in 1646 was ejected from both these positions, by the Parliamentary government.PDF , p. 159. He was also deprived of his See by Parliament on 9 October 1646, as episcopacy was abolished for the duration of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.
He took refuge with Thomas Rich, lord of the manor of Sonning.Parishes - Sonning with Earley, Woodley and Sandford | British History Online
Works
He continued to preach, for example at the Temple Church, and a collection of sermons of his was published posthumously.
Notes
External links Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury Biography Sermon from 1644