William Chappell (10 December 1582 – 14 May 1649) was an English scholar and clergyman who served as the 7th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1634 to 1640.
She suggests Andreas Hyperius, and his De formandis concionibus sacris (1553), as influential on Chappell and other writers on preaching and sermon types.
[9] Lares argues for Chappell as the link to the older Christ's preaching tradition, Milton connected back to William Perkins.
[11][12] One of Chappell's disputation opponents was supposedly James I, crushed in Oxford;[13] another (William Roberts in 1615, later bishop of Bangor) allegedly had fainted.
[17] He was Provost there from 1634 to 1640,[18] replacing Robert Ussher, with Wentworth's backing; amongst other changes, he put an end to the use of and teaching in the Irish language.