1. John Tillotson was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694.
12 Facts About John Tillotson
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John Tillotson's tutor was David Clarkson and he graduated in 1650, being made a fellow of his college in 1651.
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In 1656 John Tillotson became tutor to the son of Edmund Prideaux, attorney-general to Oliver Cromwell.
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John Tillotson was present at the Savoy Conference in 1661, and remained identified with the Presbyterians until the passing of the Act of Uniformity 1662.
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John Tillotson now devoted himself to an exact study of biblical and patristic writers, especially Basil and Chrysostom.
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John Tillotson himself was personally tolerant enough towards Catholics, remarking in a famous sermon that while Popery was "gross superstition", yet "Papists, I doubt not, are made like other men".
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John Tillotson was actually a latitudinarian, known as "Cambridge Arminianism".
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John Tillotson was a man of the world as well as a divine, and in his sermons, he exhibited a tact which enabled him at once to win the ear of his audience.
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John Tillotson employed his controversial weapons with some skill against atheism and Catholicism.
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John Tillotson afterwards enjoyed the friendship of Lady Russell, and it was partly through her that he obtained so much influence with Princess Anne, who followed his advice in regard to the settlement of the crown on William of Orange.
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John Tillotson was, about the same time, named Dean of St Paul's.
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John Tillotson is buried in the church of St Lawrence Jewry just west of the Bank of England in the City of London.