Henry Sacheverell
✓ Source-basedstableEnglish High Church cleric 1674-1724 (1674-1724)
PoliticiansLived 1674 to 1724 · aged 50
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Henry Sacheverell was an English Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching an incendiary sermon on 5 November.
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Figure in Staffordshire pottery, c. 1745, a sign of his lasting popularity
John Hough, Bishop of Oxford, ordained Sacheverell deacon
Daniel Defoe dubbed Sacheverell "the bloody flag officer" and based the style of his The Shortest Way with the Dissenters on one of Sacheverell's sermons.
Sir Samuel Garrard, 4th Baronet, the Lord Mayor of London who appointed Sacheverell to deliver his most famous sermon
Sidney Godolphin, whom Sacheverell lampooned as "Volpone"
Politicians born in the 1670s 6
About this person
Henry Sacheverell was an English Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching an incendiary sermon on 5 November. Sacheverell was subsequently impeached by the House of Commons of Great Britain and though found guilty, his light punishment was seen as a vindication and he became a popular figure in the country, contributing to the Tories' landslide victory at the 1710 British general election.
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deceased
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Lived 1674 to 1724 · aged 50
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