11 Facts About Jeremy Collier

Jeremy Collier was an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian.

Jeremy Collier was the primus of the nonjuring line and a strong supporter of the four usages.

Jeremy Collier's Essays were popular in his own day but are now little read.

Jeremy Collier wrote anti-theatrical polemic but was a high-church monarchist, unlike the many Puritans who wrote in this genre as well.

Jeremy Collier's pamphlets sought to stem the spread of vice but turned out to be the sparks that kindled a controversial flame between like-minded Puritans and Restoration dramatists.

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Jeremy Collier devotes nearly 300 pages to decry what he perceived as profanity and moral degeneration in the stage productions of the era.

Jeremy Collier argued that a venue as influential as the theatre—it was believed then that the theatre should be providing moral instruction—should not have content that is morally detrimental.

Jeremy Collier published an early encyclopedia in 1701, The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary.

Jeremy Collier freely admitted that the text was based on a number of earlier historians, but especially out of the eighth edition of Louis Moreri's Grand Dictionnaire Historique.

The work was not considered a success as Jeremy Collier's additions were not of the same quality as the source text and it came out during the same period as the Lexicon Technicum.

The grave is lost but Jeremy Collier is not listed on the Burdett-Coutts Memorial to the important graves lost therein.