BURGESS, THOMAS (17561837)

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BURGESS, THOMAS (17561837) , English divine, was born at Odiham, in

Hampshire

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

. He was educated at Winchester, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Before graduating, he edited a reprint of John Burton's Pentalogia. In 1781 he brought out an annotated edition of Richard Dawes's Miscellanea Critica (reprinted,

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 1800). In 1783 he became a fellow of his college, and in 1785 was appointed chaplain to Shute Barrington, bishop of Salisbury, through whose influence he obtained a prebendal stall, which he held till 1803. In 1788 he published his Considerations on the Abolition of Slavery, in which he advocated the principle of

gradual

GRADUAL (Med. Lat. gradualis, of or belonging to steps or degrees; gradus, step)

emancipation. In 1791 he accompanied Barrington to Durham, where he did evangelistic

work

WORK

among the poorer classes. In 1803 he was appointed to the vacant bishopric of St

David

's, which he held for twenty years with

great

GREAT

success. He founded the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in the diocese, and also St

David

's College at Lampeter, which he liberally endowed. In 1820 he was appointed first president of the recently founded Royal Society of Literature; and three years later he was promoted to the see of Salisbury, over which he presided for twelve years, prosecuting his benevolent designs with unwearied industry. As at St David's, so at Salisbury, he founded a Chuich Union Society for the assistance of infirm and distressed clergymen. He strenuously opposed both Unitarianism and Catholic emancipation. He died on the 19th of February 1837.
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list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
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LIST,
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1789-1846)

of his works, which are very numerous, will be found in his biography by J. S. Harford (2nd ed., 1841). In addition to those already referred to may be mentioned his Essay on the Study of Antiquities, The First Principles of Christian Knowledge; Reflections on the Controversial Writings of Dr

Priestley

PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH (1733-1804)

, Emendations in Suidam et Hesychium et alios Lexicographos Graecos; The Bible, and nothing but the Bible, the Religion of the Church of England.

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