Robert Dingley (1619–1660), was an English puritan divine, who supported the
Parliamentary cause in the
English Civil War.
Biography
Dingley, a second son of Sir John Dingley, and a sister of Dr.
Henry Hammond, was born in 1619. In 1634 he entered
Magdalen College, Oxford. Having finished his university career and taken his degree of M.A., he took holy orders.[1]
On the outbreak of the civil war he took the parliamentary side. Dingley was presented to the rectory of
Brightstone in the
Isle of Wight during the governorship of his kinsman, Colonel
Robert Hammond, and enjoyed a high reputation as a preacher. He gave active assistance to the commissioners of Hampshire in rejecting ignorant and scandalous ministers and schoolmasters. He died at Brightstone on 12 January 1660.[1]
As to the Hampshire Commission see The Country's Concurrence with the London United Ministers in their late Heads of Agreement, by Samuel Chandler, D.D., 1691.
External links
"House of Commons Journal Volume 5: 10 May 1648". Journal of the House of Commons. 5, 1646–1648. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office:
555–556. 1802. — "Ordered, That the Ordinance for putting Mr. Dingley in a Living in the Isle of Wight be read the next Day appointed for Church Business."