Gataker

Gataker, THOMAS, English divine, was born in London in 1574, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. In succession preacher at Lincoln's Inn, rector of Rotherhithe, and member of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, he opposed the imposition of the Covenant, and was one of the forty-seven London clergymen who condemned the trial of Charles I. He died in 1654. His works include Of the Nature and Use of Lots (1616); and Cinnus, sive Adversaria Miscellanea (1651).