John Stoughton (1593?–1639) was an English clergyman, of influential millennial views. He was the stepfather and preceptor in their youth of Ralph Cudworth and James Cudworth.
St Mary's church, Naughton, where Thomas Stoughton was rector and his son John was baptized in 1593
St Peter-ad-Vincula, Coggeshall, where Thomas Stoughton was vicar from 1600 until deprived in 1606
St Andrew's church, Aller, where John Stoughton succeeded Dr Cudworth in 1624
Ralph Cudworth was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian Hebraist, classicist, theologian and philosopher, and a leading figure among the Cambridge Platonists who became 11th Regius Professor of Hebrew (1645–88), 26th Master of Clare Hall (1645–54), and 14th Master of Christ's College (1654–88). A leading opponent of Hobbes's political and philosophical views, his magnum opus was his The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678).
Ralph Cudworth
Parish Church of St Andrew, Aller, Somerset: where John Stoughton succeeded Ralph Cudworth Snr (1624)
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Old Court, Clare College, Cambridge