William Whitaker (Puritan ejected minister)

Aged 14 he was admitted a member of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he became noted as a linguist.

After the Restoration of 1660 he was one of the London ministers who drew up and presented to the king the memorial against the Act of Uniformity 1662.

[2] After his ejectment he gathered a private congregation, which assembled in a small meeting-house in Long Walk, Bermondsey.

[2] He also took part in conventicles at the house of Frances Cecil, Dowager Countess of Exeter (née Brydges, widow of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, who died in 1663),[3] with her chaplain Thomas Jacomb and Matthew Poole.

In 1674 eighteen of his sermons, which had been taken in shorthand, were published by his widow, with a dedication to Elizabeth Cecil, Countess of Exeter, and a sketch of the author's character by Thomas Jacomb.