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DAVID BOGUE (1750-1825)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 121 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVID See also:BOGUE (1750-1825)  , See also:British See also:nonconformist divine, was See also:born in the See also:parish of Coldingham, See also:Berwickshire . After a course of study in See also:Edinburgh, he was licensed to preach by the See also:Church of See also:Scotland, but made his way to See also:London (1721), where he taught in See also:schools at See also:Edmonton, See also:Hampstead and See also:Camberwell . He then settled as See also:minister of the Congregational church at See also:Gosport in See also:Hampshire (1777), and to his See also:pastoral duties added the See also:charge of an institution for preparing men for the See also:ministry . It was the See also:age of the new-born missionary enterprise, and See also:Rogue's See also:academy was in a very large measure the See also:seed from which the London Missionary Society took its growth . See also:Bogue himself would have gone to See also:India in 1796 but for the opposition of the See also:East India See also:Company . He also had much to do with See also:founding the British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible Society and the Religious See also:Tract Society, and in See also:conjunction with See also:James Bennet, minister at See also:Romsey, wrote a well-known See also:History of Dissenters (3 vols., 1809) . Another of his writings was an See also:Essay on the Divine Authority of the New Testament . He died at See also:Brighton on the 25th of See also:October 1825 .

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