Thomas Sprat (1635-20 May 1713) was the Anglican Bishop of Rochester from 1684 to 1713.
Biography[]
Thomas Sprat was born in Beaminster, Dorset, England in 1635, and he became an Anglican priest before 1660 and became canon of Westminster Abbey in 1669, rector of Uffington in 1670, and chaplain to King Charles II of England in 1676. This was followed his elevation to Dean of Westminster in 1683 and Bishop of Rochester in 1684, and he served on King James II of England's ecclesiastical commission. While, in 1689, he opposed the notion of declaring the throne vacant, he assisted in the coronation of William III of England and Mary II of England. He was falsely implicated in a Jacobite plot in 1692 and was released from prison after the plot was revealed to be the result of a forged document, and he died in 1713.