Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Shert, John, Blessed Martyr , born Cheshire, England ; died Tyburn, England , 1582. He was educated at Oxford (B.A., Brasenose), taught school in London, was ordained at Rome, and was sent to the English mission. He was executed with Blessed Thomas Ford. Beatified , 1888. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Shert, Blessed John A native of Cheshire; took the degree of B.A. at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1566. Successively schoolmaster in London, and servant to Dr. Thomas Stapleton at Douai, he entered the seminary in 1576, and was ordained subdeacon. He was ordained priest from the English College, Rome, of which he was the senior … Continue reading “Shert, Blessed John”

Sherson, Martin English priest and confessor, one of the Dilati (see ENGLISH MARTYRS), b. 1563; d. 1588. A native of Yorkshire, he matriculated at Oxford from St. John’s College in 1575 at the age of twelve, becoming “a poor scholar of George Mannering who taught Rhetoric there”; arrived at the English College at Reims, 1 … Continue reading “Sherson, Martin”

Sherrill, Edwin Jenner a Congregational minister, was burn in Shoreham, Vt., Oct. 23, 1806. His preparatory studies were completed in Middlebury, after which he entered Hamilton, College, N.Y., whence he was graduated in 1832. He spent two years of study in Yale Theological Seminary, Mass., and one year at Andover Seminary. He was ordained at … Continue reading “Sherrill, Edwin Jenner”

Sherman, Joseph, LL.D a Congregational minister and educator, was born at Edgecomb, Maine, March 3, 1800. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1826, was principal for six years of the Academy at North Yarmouth, studied two years at Andover, and in 1834 went to Columbia, Tennessee, as professor of ancient languages in Jackson College. For … Continue reading “Sherman, Joseph, LL.D”

Sherman, John (1) a Congregational minister, was born at Dedham, England, Dec 26, 1613. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He came to New England in 1634, preached a short time at Watertown, and moved to New Haven, where he was made a magistrate and lived until 1644, when he accepted an invitation to … Continue reading “Sherman, John (2)”

Sherman, Charles a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Woodbury Conn., Oct. 20, 1803. He was converted in his seventeenth year, licensed as a local preacher in 1823, and admitted into the itinerancy, in 1830, laboring successively in Stratford and Burlingtoun in the New York Conference, and Albany and Troy in the Troy Conference, to … Continue reading “Sherman, Charles”

Sherlock, William, D.D. a learned English, divine, was born in Southwark, London, in 1641. educated at Eton, and thence removed to Peter House, Cambridge, in May, 1657. He was made rector of St. George’s, Botolph Lane, London, in 1669. In 1680 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 1681 was collated to … Continue reading “Sherlock, William, D.D.”

Sherlock, Thomas an English prelate, was the son of Dr. William Sherlock (q.v.) and was born in London in 1678. He early went to Eton, from which (about 1693) he was removed to Cambridge, and was admitted into Catherine Hall. He took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1697, and that of Master of … Continue reading “Sherlock, Thomas”

Sherlock, Richard, D.D. an English clergyman, was born at Oxton; Cheshire, in 1613; and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and Trinity College, Dublin. He was minister of several parishes in Ireland, and afterwards became rector of Winwick, England. He died in 1689. His works are, Answer to the Quakers Objection to Ministers (Lond. 1656, … Continue reading “Sherlock, Richard, D.D.”