John Wheelwright was an English Puritan clergyman known for being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian Controversy, and for subsequently establishing the town of Exeter, Ne
c. 1677 portrait of Wheelwright
At Sidney Sussex, Wheelwright studied alongside Oliver Cromwell whose head is buried near the college chapel
Holy Trinity Church, Bilsby, where Wheelwright was vicar
Anne Hutchinson, related to Wheelwright by marriage, was one of the first to be blamed for the colony's difficulties during the Antinomian Controversy.
John Cotton was a clergyman in England and the American colonies, and was considered the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He studied for five years at Trinity Colleg
Portrait originally identified as John Cotton. It is now thought it is probably another member of the Cotton family.
Plaque on the Old Grammar School, Derby
Cotton was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge
Richard Sibbes was Cotton's spiritual counselor.