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JOSEPH BINGHAM (1668-1723)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 948 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:BINGHAM (1668-1723)  , See also:English See also:scholar and divine, was See also:horn at See also:Wakefield in See also:Yorkshire in See also:September 1668 . He was educated at University See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he was made See also:fellow in 1689 and See also:tutor in 1691 . A See also:sermon preached by him from the university See also:pulpit, St See also:Mary's, on the meaning of the terms " See also:Person " and " Substance " in the Fathers, brought upon him a most unjust See also:accusation of See also:heresy . He was compelled to give up his fellowship and leave the university; but he was immediately presented by Dr See also:John See also:Radcliffe to the rectory of Headbournworthy, near See also:Winchester (1695) . In this See also:country retirement he began his laborious and valuable See also:work entitled Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the See also:Christian See also:Church, the first See also:volume of which appeared in 1708 and the tenth and last in 1722 . His See also:design, learnediy, exhaustively and impartially executed, was " to give such a methodical See also:account of the antiquities of the Christian Church as others have done of the See also:Greek and See also:Roman and Jewish antiquities, by reducing the See also:ancient customs, usages and practices of the church under certain proper heads, whereby the reader may take a view at once of any particular usage or See also:custom of Christians for four or five centuries." Notwithstanding his learning and merit, See also:Bingham received nohigher preferment than that of Headbournworthy till 1712, when he was collated to the rectory of See also:Havant, near See also:Portsmouth, by See also:Sir See also:Jonathan Trelawney, See also:bishop of Winchester . Nearly all his little See also:property was lost in the See also:great See also:South See also:Sea Bubble of 1720 . He died on the 17th of See also:August 1723 .

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