Charles Hotham

Charles Hotham (1615 in Scorborough – c. 1672 in Bermudas) was an English cleric. Biography Hotham was the third son of Sir John Hotham, of Scorborough, near Beverley, Yorkshire, governor of Hull, by his second marriage, was born on 12 May 1615, and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. His name is appended to some Latin verses in "Carmen Natalitium Principis Elisabethæ", published by members of the university in 1635. He graduated B.A. in 1635–1636, and M.A. in 1639. Hotham succeeded to the family living of Hollym, near Withernsea, on 5 November 1640, and on resigning in 1640 returned to Cambridge, where he was appointed by the Henry Montagu, Earl of Manchester one of the fellows of Peterhouse who succeeded Beaumont, Crashaw, and others, on their being turned out in June 1644. In 1646 Hotham was university preacher and served the office of proctor. Newcome records that "among other of his singularities he made the sophisters say their positions without book". He was regarded as "a man of very great eminency in learning, strictness in religion, unblamableness in conversation". In his younger days he studied astrology, and afterwards had a love for chemistry, and was "a searcher into the secrets of nature".