Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Patrick, Simon (1626-1707), a learned theologian, was born at Gainsborough and educated at Cambridge. At the time of the Great Plague he was rector of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and subsequently became Dean of Peterborough and Bishop of Chichester and Ely (1691). He was author of many expository works, and left an Autobiography, which was first printed in 1839.