Ralph Cudworth ( 1617 - 1688 )

Birth: Aller, Somerset, England, Europe (1617) Baptism: Aller, Somerset, England, Europe (13 July 1617) Death: Christ's College, Cambridge, England, Europe (26 June 1688) Burial: Christ's College chapel, Cambridge, England, Europe (27 June 1688) Occupation: Clergyman, Church of England Research Field: Mechanical philosophy Education: Pupil of his step-father, Dr Stoughton; Emmanuel College, Cambridge (BA 1635; MA 1639; BD 1646; DD 1651) Career: Fellow of Emmanuel (1639); published 'A Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper' and 'The Union of Christ and the Church a Shadow' (1642); Master of Clare Hall, Cambridge (1646-1654); Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge (1645-death); Incumbent of North Cadbury, Somerset (1650); Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (1654); Adviser to the scholars preparing the Polyglot Bible (1654-1657); Rector of Toft, Cambridgeshire (1656); Vicar of Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire (1656); Rector of Ashwell, Hertfordshire (1662); Prebendary of Gloucester (1678); published 'The true intellectual system of the universe, wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and its impossibility demonstrated' (1678); one of the Cambridge Platonists Membership: Fellow Election Date: 17/09/1662 Proposer: John Wilkins (4 June 1662).