Did anyone attend both the Synod of Dort (1618-1619) and the Westminster Assembly (1643-1653), the two most important councils of the Reformation?
If so, the likely place to look is among the Englishmen who attended the Synod of Dort. That is because, while the Synod of Dort included individuals from the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and England, the Westminster Assembly only included individuals from England, Scotland, and Wales. So if there is any overlap, it would be among those Englishmen who attended Dort.
Investigating this, we find that 9 Englishmen were either delegates (6) or observers (3) of the Synod of Dort.
But six of these men [George Carleton (1559-1628), Thomas Goad (1576-1638), John Davenant (1576-1641), Samuel Ward (1572-1643), William Ames (1576-1633), and John Brinsley the Elder (1581-1624)] died before the Westminster Assembly first met in 1643.
That leaves three.
Bishop Joseph Hall was chosen to go to Dort, but fell sick and therefore didn’t attend. He later, with other bishops, was convicted of some offenses and seems to have retired before the Westminster Assembly ever met.
Walter Balcanquhall (1586?-1645) was Dean of Durham from 1639 until his death, but for some reason unknown to me he was not called to the Westminster Assembly.
John Hales (1584-1656) seems to have spent his later years as a scholar at Eton College. But he did not attend the Westminster Assembly.
So it seems no person attended both the Synod of Dort and the Westminster Assembly.
