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EDWARD CARDWELL (1787-1861)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 327 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:CARDWELL (1787-1861)  , See also:English theologian, was See also:born at See also:Blackburn in See also:Lancashire in 1787 . He was educated at Brasenose See also:College, See also:Oxford (B.A . 1809; M.A . 1812; B.D . 1819; D.D . 1831), and after being for several years See also:tutor and lecturer, was appointed, in 1814, one of the examiners to the university . In 1825 he was chosen See also:Camden See also:professor of See also:ancient See also:history; and during his five years' professorship he published an edition of the See also:Ethics of See also:Aristotle, and a course of his lectures on The Coinage of the Greeks and See also:Romans . In 1831 he succeeded See also:Archbishop See also:Whately as See also:principal of St See also:Alban's See also:Hall . He published in 1837 a student's edition of the See also:Greek Testament, and an edition of the Greek and Latin texts of the History of the Jewish See also:War, by See also:Josephus, with illustrative notes . But his most important labours were in the See also:field of English See also:church history . He projected an extensive See also:work, which was to embrace the entire synodical history of the church in See also:England, and was to befounded on See also:David See also:Wilkins's Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae . Of this work he executed some portions only .

The first published was Documentary See also:

Annals of the Reformed Church of England from 1546 to 1716, which appeared in 1839 . It was followed by a History of Conferences, &c., connected with the Revision of the See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer (1840) . On 1842 appeared Synodalia, a Collection of Articles of See also:Religion, Canons, and Proceedings of See also:Convocation from 1547 to 1717, completing the See also:series for that See also:period . Closely connected with these See also:works is the Reformatio Legum Ecdesiast?carum (1850), which treats of the efforts for reform during the reigns of See also:Henry VIII., See also:Edward VI., and See also:Elizabeth . See also:Cardwell also published in 1854 a new edition of See also:Bishop See also:Gibson's Synodus Anglicana . He was one of the best men of business in the university, and held various important posts, among which were those of delegate of the See also:press, See also:curator of the university galleries, manager of the See also:Bible See also:department of the press, and private secretary to successive chancellors of the university- He established the Wolvercot See also:paper See also:mill . He died at Oxford on the 23rd of May 1861 .

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