Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hellier, Henry
HELLIER, HENRY (1662?–1697), divine, born at Chew-Dundry, Somersetshire, about 1662, was the son of Henry Hellier. He became scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in April 1677, and graduated B.A. 1680, M.A. 1682, B.D. 1690, and D.D. 1697. He was ordained deacon at Christ Church on 25 May 1684, and elected fellow of his college in 1687. On 4 Dec. 1687 he preached before the university a sermon ‘Concerning the Obligation of Oaths’ (printed at Oxford, 1688), which was thought to reflect on James II for breaking his oath at the coronation. Hellier died by his own hand in December 1697, being at the time vice-president of Corpus (Hearne, Notes and Collections, Oxford Hist. Soc., i. 311). He was author of ‘A Treatise concerning Schism and Schismaticks; wherein the chief grounds and principles of a late Separation from the Church of England are considered and answered,’ 4to, London, 1697.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 620–1; works referred to.]