Is your surname Baxter?

Research the Baxter family

Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!

Richard Baxter

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Rowton, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
Death: December 08, 1691 (76)
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Son of Richard Baxter
Husband of Margaret Baxter
Father of Thomas Baxter

Managed by: Jessica Anne Bills
Last Updated:
view all

Immediate Family

About Richard Baxter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Baxter

Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymn-writer, theologian, and controversialist. Dean Stanley called him "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". After some false starts, he made his reputation by his ministry at Kidderminster, and at around the same time began a long and prolific career as theological writer. After the Restoration he refused preferment, while retaining a non-separatist Presbyterian approach, and became one of the most influential leaders of the Nonconformists, spending time in prison. His views on justification and sanctification are highly controversial within the Reformed tradition because his teachings seem, to some, to undermine salvation by faith alone, the bedrock of the Protestant Reformation.

view all

Richard Baxter's Timeline

1615
November 12, 1615
Rowton, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
1655
1655
Rowton, Shropshire, UK
1691
December 8, 1691
Age 76
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom