Richard Hollinworth ca.1607-1656

Richard HOLLINWORTH or HOLLINGWORTH ca.1607-1656

Biographical Note

Born in Manchester in 1607 to Francis Hollinworth and Margaret Wharmby, Richard Hollinworth was an influential English clergyman who, together with Richard Heyrick, played an important role in establishing presbyterianism in Lancashire during the 1640s. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he became a curate at Middleton near Manchester in 1635 and later 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 Magdalene, 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

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