{{Short description|English Independent minister}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|right|200px|Sidrach Simpson '''Sidrach Simpson''' (c.1600-1655) was an English Independent minister, one of the leaders of the Independent faction in the Westminster Assembly.
==Life==
Sidrach Simpson came from Lincolnshire. He was educated as a sizar at Emmanuel College and Queens' College, Cambridge.<ref>{{acad|id=SM616S|name=Simpson, Sidrach}}</ref>
After losing his Church of England status under William Laud, he spent time as a minister in the Netherlands. In the Westminster Assembly he was one of the "Five Dissenting Brethren" putting their names to the ''An Apologeticall Narration'' presented to Parliament on 3 January 1644. The others in the group were William Bridge, Jeremiah Burroughs, Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye, all with a comparable Dutch background as ministers (Burroughs and Simpson both in Rotterdam<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/meetthepuritans/jeremiahburroughs.html|title=Jeremiah Burroughs (c. 1600-1646) by Dr. Joel Beeke and Randall J. Pederson}}</ref>), and united in a form of Congregationalism<ref>Michael R. Watts, The Dissenters (1978), pp. 99-100.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.constitution.org/lev/lev_mov.htm |title=Lev_mov.HTM |access-date=21 October 2008 |archive-date=20 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120080125/http://www.constitution.org./lev/lev_mov.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was also in the group of ten, dominated by Independents, condemning in 1652 the Racovian Catechism, with Nye and Bridge, six further Independents,<ref>Namely John Owen, William Strong, William Bridge, William Greenhill, George Griffith, and Thomas Harrison.</ref> John Dury, and Adoniram Byfield.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anglicanbooksrevitalized.us/Peter_Toons_Books_Online/History/statesman2.htm |title=Statesman2 |access-date=2007-07-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070909110120/http://www.anglicanbooksrevitalized.us/Peter_Toons_Books_Online/History/statesman2.htm |archive-date=2007-09-09 }}</ref>
He became Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge in 1650, but was drifting in his last years to the outer extremes in his positions.{{cn|date=July 2023}} He was preoccupied with his concurrent post as rector in London, at St Mary Abchurch, and then from 1653 at St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66645|title=The colleges and halls: Pembroke - British History Online}}</ref><ref name = CDNB>Concise Dictionary of National Biography</ref> Oliver Cromwell had him imprisoned for aggressive preaching.<ref name = CDNB/>
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