GEMMS IDGEMMS-PERSON-000214
NameSamuel Dugard
TitleMr
Gendermale
DenominationChurch of England
Livedb. ca. 1643-01-01 - d. ca. 1697-04-01 (new)
Linked Manuscripts
Linked SermonsSermon 1 on Hebrews 4:14 -- preacher (autograph: uncertain)Sermon 2 on Hebrews 4:14 -- preacher (autograph: uncertain)Sermon on 1 Peter 3:8 -- preacher (autograph: uncertain)Sermon on Ecclesiastes 7:2 -- preacher (autograph: uncertain)
Linked Reports
Associated PlacesForton -- ParishTrinity College -- Place of StudyLichfield Cathedral -- PostTrinity College -- Post
Source of DataRichard Snoddy; David Robinson
Biographical Sources ConsultedODNB (Article: 8181)
Other NoteSamuel Dugard (DuGard) was the son of Thomas DuGard, master of Warwick School from 1633-38 and rector of Barford, and his wife Hannah (d. 1655). Dugard matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1661 as a commoner and graduated B.A. on 20 October 1664; he was ordained a minister the same year. In 1667 Dugard was elected a fellow of Trinity, proceeding M.A. several months later. He was appointed rector of Forton in Staffordshire in 1673. Dugard is best remembered for his authorial career. In 1674, his "'Relation concerning a strange kind of bleeding in a little child at Lilleshall in Shropshire', was printed in the Philosophical Transactions (9.193); he is also credited with penning the anonymous publication, "The marriages of cousin germans vindicated from the censures of unlawfulnesse and inexpediency: being a letter written to his much honour'd T.D.," published in 1673. His most famous work, "The True Nature of Divine Law, and of Disobedience Thereunto; in Nine Discourses," was published in 1687, followed by the tract " A discourse concerning many children, in which the prejudices against a numerous offspring are removed, and the objections answered, in a letter to a friend" (1695). Dugard married twice: first to his cousin Lydia Dugard (1649/50–1675), with whom he had three children, Thomas, Richard, and Lydia; and second to another cousin, Elizabeth Kimberley, with whom he had seven children, Elizabeth, William, Hannah, Phebe, Samuel, Susanna, and Charles, between 1679 and 1692. Dugard was collated to the prebend of Pipa Minor at Lichfield Cathedral in January 1697 but passed away three months later. He was buried in Forton on 13 April 1697.
GEMMS record createdDecember 13, 2015
GEMMS record last editedAugust 01, 2021