Francis Doughty (clergyman)

Francis Doughty (1616 – c. 1670) was an English-American Presbyterian minister. Doughty was born in Bristol, and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England by William Piers. He served the parishes of Boxwell, Leighterton and Rangeworthy in Gloucestershire. In 1635 he got in trouble by referring to Charles I as "Charles by common election and general consent King of England". William Gray Dixon calls Doughty the "Apostle of Presbyterianism in America", and suggests that his character "seems to have well befitted his name.

Francis Doughty (clergyman)

Francis Doughty (1616 – c. 1670) was an English-American Presbyterian minister. Doughty was born in Bristol, and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England by William Piers. He served the parishes of Boxwell, Leighterton and Rangeworthy in Gloucestershire. In 1635 he got in trouble by referring to Charles I as "Charles by common election and general consent King of England". William Gray Dixon calls Doughty the "Apostle of Presbyterianism in America", and suggests that his character "seems to have well befitted his name.