Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (born 1592)

Nicholas Ferrar

English scholar, courtier and church innovator 1592–1637

Nicholas Ferrar was an English scholar, courtier and businessman, who was ordained a deacon in the Church of England. He lost much of his fortune in the Virginia Company and retreated with his extended family in 1626 to the manor of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, for his…