Whichcote

Whichcote is under considerable pressure in the wake of the club's fatal supper.

Andrew Taylor's 'Anatomy of Ghosts': Strange sightings in 18th-century England Wendy Smith 2011

Into this fraught situation arrives John Holdsworth, a widower more mournful and guilt-ridden than the ice-cold Whichcote.

Andrew Taylor's 'Anatomy of Ghosts': Strange sightings in 18th-century England Wendy Smith 2011

Whichcote is under considerable pressure in the wake of the club's fatal supper.

Andrew Taylor's 'Anatomy of Ghosts': Strange sightings in 18th-century England Wendy Smith 2011

Whichcote, his university days behind him but too gentlemanly to actually work, makes a precarious living fleecing the Apostles at cards and providing the louche entertainments they consider their due as English aristocrats.

Andrew Taylor's 'Anatomy of Ghosts': Strange sightings in 18th-century England Wendy Smith 2011

Into this fraught situation arrives John Holdsworth, a widower more mournful and guilt-ridden than the ice-cold Whichcote.

Andrew Taylor's 'Anatomy of Ghosts': Strange sightings in 18th-century England Wendy Smith 2011

Whichcote, his university days behind him but too gentlemanly to actually work, makes a precarious living fleecing the Apostles at cards and providing the louche entertainments they consider their due as English aristocrats.

Andrew Taylor's 'Anatomy of Ghosts': Strange sightings in 18th-century England Wendy Smith 2011

Before he can do this, the girl – tied to a bed – is discovered to be dead; later that night Sylvia Whichcote, the wife of the club's head, also dies, drowning in the college's pond.

The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor Alison Flood 2010

By reason Whichcote did not mean the disputatious logic of the schools but discursive, demonstrative and practical reason enlightened by contemplation of the divine.

The Cambridge Platonists Hutton, Sarah 2007

Whichcote regarded human nature as rational and perfectible, and he believed that it is through reason as much as revelation that God communicates with man.

The Cambridge Platonists Hutton, Sarah 2007

During the Civil War period, Whichcote was appointed Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and he served as Vice Chancellor of the University in 1650.

The Cambridge Platonists Hutton, Sarah 2007