, nephew to the preceding, son of John Fairclough, was a native of Northamptonshire, and educated
, nephew to the preceding, son of
John Fairclough, was a native of Northamptonshire, and
educated at All Souls’ college, Oxford, which he is said to
have left after taking his first degree in arts, probably to
become his uncle’s assistant at Lambeth or Acton. During
the rebellion he went to St. Christopher’s in the West Indies, where he arrived in 1643, and had the honour of
being the first preacher of the gospel in the infancy of that
colony. It appears that he returned about the time of the
restoration, and was appointed chaplain to the king, who
also in August 1660 presented him to the precentorship of
Lincoln, and in September following to the prebend of
Milton Ross, in that cathedral. In 1662, he was created
D. D. and had from the dean and chapter of Lincoln the
vicarage of Edwinton in Nottinghamshire, worth about
sixty pounds a year. He died at Lincoln in 1666, and was
interred in a chapel in the cathedral. He published one
or two of his uncle’s tracts, particularly “Dr. Featley revived, &c.
” in which, as already noticed, there is a life of
his uncle. Of his own were only published two occasional
sermons, and “A divine antidote against the Plague, contained in Soliloquies and Prayers,
” London,