William Lyford (1598–1653) was anEnglish nonconformist clergyman, elected to theWestminster Assembly though not sitting in it.
Lyford was born atPeasemore, nearNewbury inBerkshire, the son of the rector, an elder William Lyford and his wife, Mary Smith.[1] He enteredMagdalen Hall, Oxford, as a commoner on 26 April 1615, became ademy ofMagdalen College in 1617, and graduated B.A. on 16 December 1618. He proceeded M.A. on 14 June 1621 (incorporated at Cambridge 1623), and B.D. 12 May 1631.[2] On the presentation ofJohn Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, he became vicar ofSherborne, Dorset, in 1631.
HisCalvinistic views left him undisturbed during the civil war; he was chosen member of the Westminster Assembly, but did not sit. In 1653 he was allowed an annuity out of Lord Digby's estate. Lyford died at Sherborne on 3 October 1653, and was buried under the communion table in the chancel of the church. By his wife Elizabeth he left children.
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Lyford edited in 1634 the second edition ofWilliam Pinke'sTryall of a Christians syncere Love unto Christ.
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