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HULSE, JOHN (1708-1790) , English divine, was bornthe eldest of a family of nineteenat Middlewich, in Cheshire, in 1708. Entering St John's College, Cambridge , in 1724, he graduated in 1728; and on taking orders (in 1732) was presented to a small country curacy. His father having died in 1753, Hulse succeeded to his estates in Cheshire, where, owing to feeble health, he lived in retirement till his death in December 1790. He bequeathed his estates to Cambridge University for the purpose of maintaining two divinity scholars (3o a year each) at St John's College, of founding
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An account of the Hulsean lectures from 182o to 1894 is given in J. Hunt's Religious Thought in the 19th Century, 332-338; among the lecturers have been Henry
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