John Edwards (divine)

Having spent seven years there under Mr. Dugard's care, he was appointed (10 March 1653-4) sizar of St. John's College, Cambridge, which at that time was under the presidency of Anthony Tuckney, a presbyterian.

In 1664 he took the charge of Trinity Church, Cambridge, where his preaching – plain, practical, and temperate – attracted notice, and he won the good opinion of his parishioners during an outbreak of plague.

A few years later, having taken the degree of B.D., he was chosen lecturer of Bury St. Edmunds, but retained the office only twelve months, preferring college life.

As he met no sympathy from the master, he resigned his fellowship and entered Trinity Hall as a fellow commoner, performing the regular exercises in civil law.

But the parishioners of St. Sepulchre's, Cambridge having invited him to be their minister, he resumed his clerical functions, and about the same time married the widow of Alderman Lane, who had been a successful attorney in the town.