John Tillotson (October 1630-22 November 1694) was the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694, succeeding William Sancroft and preceding Thomas Tenison.
Biography[]
John Tillotson was born in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England in 1630. He became tutor to the son of attorney-general Edmund Prideaux in 1658 and was ordained a Presbyterian priest in 1661. He converted to Anglicanism after the Act of Uniformity in 1662, and he became an ordained Anglican priest in 1691; he held Arminian views and was tolerant towards Catholics. He was appointed dean of Canterbury in 1672, attended William Russell, Lord Russell on the scaffold in 1683, and obtained great influence over Princess Anne. He became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1691, and he died in 1694. American politician Thomas Tillotson was his great-great-grandnephew.