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LINGARD, JOHN (1771-1851)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 728 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LINGARD, JOHN (1771-1851) , English historian, was born on the 5th of February 1771 at Winchester, where his father, of an ancient Lincolnshire peasant stock, had established himself as a carpenter. The boy's talents attracted attention, and in 1782 he was sent to the English college at Douai, where he continued until shortly after the declaration of war by England (1793). He then lived as tutor in the family of Lord Stourton, but in October 1794 he settled along with seven other former members of the old Douai college at Crook
Hall
  near Durham, where on the completion of his theological course he became vice-president of the reorganized
seminary
 . In 1795 he was ordained priest, and soon afterwards undertook the charge of the chairs of natural and moral philosophy. In 28o8 he accompanied the community of Crook
Hall
  to the new college at Ushaw, Durham, but in 1811, after declining the presidency of' the college at Maynooth, he withdrew to the secluded ,mission at Hornby in Lancashire, where for the rest of his life he devoted himself to literary pursuits. In 1817 he visited Rome, where he made researches in the Vatican Library. In r82r
Pope
  Pius VII.. created him
doctor
  of divinity and of canon and civil law; and in 1825 Leo XII. is said to have made him cardinal in petto. He died at Hornby on the 17th of July 1851.
Lingard wrote The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church (18o6), of which a third and greatly enlarged addition appeared in 2845 under the title The History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church; containing an account of its origin, government, dottrines,
worship
 , revenues, and clerical and monastic institutions; but the
work
  with which his name is chiefly associated is A History of. England, from the first invasion by the Romans to the commencement of the reign of William III., which appeared originally in 8 vols. at intervals between 1819 and 183o. Three successive subsequent editions had the benefit of extensive revision by the author; a fifth edition in to vols. 8vo appeared in 1849, and a
sixth
 , with life of the author by Tierney prefixed to vol. x., in 1854-1855. Soon after its
appearance
  it was translated into French, German and Italian. It is a
work
  of ability and research; and, though Cardinal Wiseman's claim for its author that he was " the only impartial historian of our country" may be disregarded, the book remains interesting as representing the view taken of certain events in English history by a devout, but able and learned, Roman Catholic in the earlier part of the 19th century.


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