Edward Stillingfleet

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Edward Stillingfleet (1635 - 1699) was a British theologian.

He was born in Cranborne, Dorset, and educated at Cambridge. He entered the Church, and held many preferments, including a Royal Chaplaincy, the Deanery of St Paul's (1678), and the Bishopric of Worcester (1689). He was a frequent speaker in the House of Lords, and had considerable influence as a Churchman. A keen controversialist, he wrote many treatises, including The Irenicum (advocating compromise with the Presbyterians), Antiquities of the British Churches, and The Unreasonableness of Separation. Stillingfleet was a good and honest man and had the respect of his strongest opponents.

Stillingfleet was a scholarly man and at his death left a library of some 10,000 books, which was purchased by Narcissus Marsh and is today housed in Marsh's Library in Dublin, Ireland.