Samuel Bolton (1606 – 15 October 1654) was an English clergyman and scholar, a member of the Westminster Assembly and 13th Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. He was born in London in 1606, and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1643 he was chosen to be one of the Westminster assembly of divines. He was successively minister of St. Martin's, Ludgate Street, of St. Saviour's, Southwark, and of St. Andrew's, Holborn.
He was appointed, on the death of Thomas Bainbridge in 1646, 13th Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, and served as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1651. He has been identified with the Samuel Bolton who, in 1649, attended Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland on the scaffold. He died, after a long illness, on 15 October 1654.
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1654 - 1654
Moved from Old Library 2014. Frame cleaned and repainted, moulding repaired by MS & WMS Jan 2016.
