Grew, Obadiah, Dd

Grew, Obadiah, D.D.

an English clergyman, was born at Atherston, November 1607, in the parish of Manceter, Warwickshire, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1635; became minister of the great parish of St. Michael's, Coventry; was ejected at the Restoration for nonconformity; and died in 1698. He published some Sermons (1663): — and Meditations upon the Parable of the Prodigal Son (1678). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.