John Flower | |
Birth Date: | 1624[1] |
Birth Place: | Cubley, Derbyshire |
Death Date: | 1658 |
Education: | St Peter's College, Oxford |
Occupation: | Theologian |
Father: | William Flower |
John Flower (1624 – 1658) was a nonconformist theologian and the son of William Flower of Cubley, Derbyshire. He became a commoner of New Inn Hall,[1] now St Peter's College, Oxford, in Act term 1640. He became a Bachelor of Arts on the 2 April 1647, and was created M.A. by the parliamentary visitors on 14 April 1648. According to Anthony Wood[2] "he was soon after preacher of God's word at Ilmington in Warwickshire, and afterwards at Staunton in Nottinghamshire, where I find him in 1658."