See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:BURGESS (1756–1837)
, See also:English divine, was See also:born at Odiham, in See also:Hampshire
.
He was educated at See also:Winchester, and at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
Before graduating, he edited a reprint of See also:John See also:Burton's Pentalogia
.
In 1781 he brought out an annotated edition of See also:Richard See also:Dawes's Miscellanea Critica (reprinted, See also:Leipzig, 1800)
.
In 1783 he became a See also:fellow of his college, and in 1785 was appointed See also:chaplain to Shute See also:Barrington, See also:bishop of See also:Salisbury, through whose See also:influence he obtained a prebendal See also:- STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors
stall, which he held till 1803
.
In 1788 he published his Considerations on the Abolition of See also:Slavery, in which he advocated the principle of See also:gradual emancipation
.
In 1791 he accompanied Barrington to See also:Durham, where he did evangelistic See also:work among the poorer classes
.
In 1803 he was appointed to the vacant bishopric of St See also:David's, which he held for twenty years with See also:great success
.
He founded the Society for Promoting See also:Christian Knowledge in the See also:diocese, and also St David's College at See also:Lampeter, which he liberally endowed
.
In 1820 he was appointed first See also:president of the recently founded Royal Society of Literature; and three years later he was promoted to the see of Salisbury, over which he presided for twelve years, prosecuting his benevolent designs with unwearied See also:industry
.
As at St David's, so at Salisbury, he founded a Chuich See also:Union Society for the assistance of infirm and distressed clergymen
.
He strenuously opposed both See also:Unitarianism and See also:Catholic emancipation
.
He died on the 19th of See also:February 1837
.
A See also:list of his See also:works, which are very numerous, will be found in his See also:biography by J
.
S
.
Harford (2nd ed., 1841)
.
In addition to those already referred to may be mentioned his See also:Essay on the Study of Antiquities, The First Principles of Christian Knowledge; Reflections on the Controversial Writings of Dr See also:Priestley, Emendations in Suidam et Hesychium et alios Lexicographos Graecos; The See also:Bible, and nothing but the Bible, the See also:Religion of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:England
.
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