Benjamin Whichcote

In 1643, he married and took up priestly duties in a Cambridge-dispensed parish in North Cadbury, Somerset.

In 1644, he became 19th Provost of King's College due to Parliamentary control of the universities.

In 1650, during the Interregnum, he was vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and advised Oliver Cromwell on the subject of toleration of the Jews.

After the Restoration he was removed from his position at King's College, but reinstated when he accepted the Act of Uniformity in 1662.

He died in Cambridge in May 1683 aged 74 and was buried in London at the church of St Lawrence Jewry.