Stanley Gower

{{Short description|English puritan minister}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Stanley Gower''' (possibly baptised 29 March 1600, died 1660) was a puritan minister in the Church of England. Notably he was one of the Westminster Divines.

In 1613 Gower became a pupil of the notable puritan minister Richard Rothwell who later on prepared Gower for university. In 1621 Gower went up to Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar in 1621, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1625.<ref>{{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/66141 |title=Gower, Stanley |last=Eales |first=Jacqueline |author-link=Jacqueline Eales |date=January 2008 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/66141 |access-date=3 April 2014}}</ref> In 1630 he was appointed the curate of Attercliffe, remaining there until 1635. After a period in Hertfordshire, Gower went to London in 1643<ref>{{cite book |last=Vine |first=George Robert |date=1932 |title=The story of old Attercliffe |publisher=Ward Bros |pages=247}}</ref> where he took part in the Westminster Assembly until 1649.

His son Humphrey Gower was born in 1638.

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==External links== *[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/66141 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Gower, Stanley]

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