Men of Kent and Kentishmen/George Swinnock

by John Hutchinson

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George Swinnock,

DIVINE,

Was born at Maidstone, and educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. He became chaplain to the Hampden family, by whom he was presented to the living of Great Kimble, Bucks, from which he was ejected for nonconformity. He retired to Maidstone, where he died in 1673, aged 46. He was the author of "Heaven and Hell Epitomized," and many other theological works, now almost unknown; but of which a competent critic remarks that he "rejoiced in them as one that findeth great spoil."

[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss, and Allibone's "Dictionary of Authors."]