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===[[name::Richard]] [[name::HOLLINWORTH]] or [[name::HOLLINGWORTH]] ca.[[date of birth::1607]]-[[date of death::1656]]===

====Biographical Note====

Born in Manchester in 1607 to [[family::Francis Hollinworth]] and [[family::Margaret Wharmby]], Richard Hollinworth was an influential English [[occupation::clergyman]] who, together with [[associates::Richard Heyrick]], played an important role in establishing presbyterianism in Lancashire during the 1640s. Educated at [[education::Manchester Grammar School]] and [[education::Magdalene College, Cambridge]], he became a [[occupation::curate]] at [[location::Middleton]] near [[location::Manchester]] in 1635 and later [[occupation::Chaplain]] of the Collegiate Church in Manchester in 1643. An author of several theological works and a history of Manchester, he died in 1656 and was buried at the Collegiate Church.

====Books====

Hollingworth donated a small collection of his books to the library at [[location::Magdalene College, Cambridge]], the details of which are recorded in a seventeenth-century donations register (MS F.4.33). 

====Characteristic Markings====

Some of the books within Magdalene's collection are inscribed “Richard Hollinworth” on the title page.


====Sources====
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*Venn, J. & J. A. Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge, 1922.
*Magdalene College, Cambridge, MS F.4.33, F.12r.
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