Richard Claridge [SEP] date of death
Richard Claridge
Richard Claridge (1649 – 28 April 1723) was an English Anglican priest and Quaker convert.
Life.
The son of William Claridge of Farmborough, Warwickshire, he was educated at Farmborough grammar school. In 1666 he became a student at Balliol College, Oxford, moving two years later to St. Mary Hall. While at the university he gained the reputation of being an "orator, philosopher, and Grecian". He graduated B.A. in 1670, and in the same year was ordained a deacon,
's name first became widely known in the English-speaking world through the publications and lecture tours of Captain R. T. Claridge in 1842 and 1843, after he had stayed at Grafenberg in 1841. However, Priessnitz was already a household name on the European continent, where Richard Metcalfe, in his 1898 biography, stated: "there are hundreds of establishments where the water-cure is carried out on the principles laid down by Priessnitz". Indeed, Priessnitz's fame became so widespread that his death was reported as far away