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Nicholas Stratford
 Nicholas Stratford (1633 – 12 February 1707) was an Anglican prelate. He served as Bishop of Chester from 1689 to 1707. He was born at Hemel Hempstead,[2] graduated M.A. at Trinity College, Oxford in 1656, and was Fellow there in 1657.[3] He contributed to the royalist poetry anthology Britannia Rediviva in 1660, writing in Latin.[4] He became Dean of St Asaph in 1673.[5] He was one of the founders of the Blue Coat School in Chester.[6][7] It closed in 1949,[8] and its premises, The Bluecoat building, is now a charity hub owned by The Chester Bluecoat Charity. He promoted good relations with the Chester nonconformist Matthew Henry, and supported the Society for the Reformation of Manners.[9][10] See alsoNotes
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