Samuel Bolton (1606 – 15 October 1654) was an English clergyman and scholar, a member of the Westminster Assembly and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Life

Samuel Bolton was the son of William Bolton, of Lancashire. He was born in London in 1606, and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1643 he was chosen 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 Bainbrigg in 1646, 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. Edmund Calamy preached his funeral sermon. Bolton's publication The Sinfulness of Sin was originally delivered as a sermon to the House of Commons of England on a solemn day of humiliation on 25 March 1646.

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Family

He has been incorrectly identified both as a son and a brother of Robert Bolton (1572–1631); Robert Bolton's son Samuel was a clergyman who died in 1668.