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JOHN WILLIAM BURGON (1813-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 818 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:WILLIAM See also:BURGON (1813-1888)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:Smyrna on the 21st of See also:August 1813, the son of a See also:Turkey See also:merchant, who was a skilled numismatist and afterwards became an assistant in the antiquities See also:department of the See also:British Museum . His See also:mother was a See also:Greek . After a few years of business See also:life, See also:Burgon went to See also:Worcester See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1841, gained the See also:Newdigate See also:prize, took his degree in 1845, and won an See also:Oriel fellowship in 1846 . He was much influenced by his See also:brother-in-See also:law, the See also:scholar and theologian See also:Henry See also:John See also:Rose (1800-1873), a churchman of the old conservative type, with whom he used to spend his See also:long vacations . Burgon made Oxford his See also:head-quarters, while holding a living at some distance . In 1863 he was made See also:vicar of St See also:Mary's, having attracted See also:attention by his vehement sermons against Essays and Reviews . In 1867 he was appointed See also:Gresham See also:professor of divinity . In 1871 he published a See also:defence of the genuineness of the twelve last verses of St See also:Mark's See also:Gospel . He now began an attack on the proposal for a new lectionary for the See also:Church of See also:England, based largely upon his objections to the principles for determining the authority of MS. readings adopted by See also:Westcott and See also:Hort, which he assailed in a memorable See also:article in the Quarterly See also:Review for 1881 . This, with his other articles, was reprinted in 1884 under the See also:title of The Revision Revised . His See also:biographical essays on H . L .

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Mansel and others were also collected, and published under the title of Twelve See also:Good Men (1888) . Protests against the inclusion of Dr See also:Vance See also:Smith among the revisers, against the nomination of See also:Dean See also:Stanley to be select preacher in the university of Oxford, and against the address in favour of See also:toleration in the See also:matter of See also:ritual, followed in See also:succession . In 1876 Burgon was made dean of See also:Chichester . He died on the 4th of August 1888 . His life was written by Dean E . M . See also:Goulburn (1892) . Vehement and almost passionate in his convictions, Burgon nevertheless possessed a warm and kindly See also:heart . He may be described as a high churchman of the type prevalent before the rise of the Tractarian school . His extensive collection of transcripts from the Greek Fathers, illustrating the See also:text of the New Testament, was bequeathed to the British Museum .

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