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CARDWELL, EDWARD (1787-1861) , English theologian, was born at Blackburn in Lancashire in 1787. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (B.A. 1809; M.A. 1812; B.D. 1819; D.D. 1831), and after being for several years tutor and lecturer, was appointed, in 1814, one of the examiners to the university. In 1825 he was chosen Camden professor of ancient history; and during his five years' professorship he published an edition of the Ethics of Aristotle, and a course of his lectures on The Coinage of the Greeks and Romans. In 1831 he succeeded Archbishop Whately as principal of St Alban's Hall
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series for that period. Closely connected with these works is the Reformatio Legum Ecdesiast?carum (1850), which treats of the efforts for reform during the reigns of Henry
Cardwell also published in 1854 a new edition of Bishop Gibson's Synodus Anglicana. He was one of the best men of business in the university, and held various important posts, among which were those of delegate of the press, curator of the university galleries, manager of the Bible department of the press, and private secretary to successive chancellors of the university- He established the Wolvercot paper mill. He died at Oxford on the 23rd of May 1861.End of Article: CARDWELL, EDWARD (1787-1861) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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