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RENN DICKSON HAMPDEN (1793-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 902 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DICKSON See also:HAMPDEN (1793-1868)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born in See also:Barbados, where his See also:father was See also:colonel of See also:militia, in 1793, and was educated at See also:Oriel See also:College, See also:Oxford . Having taken his B.A. degree with first-class honours in both See also:classics and See also:mathematics in 1813, he next See also:year obtained the See also:chancellor's See also:prize for a Latin See also:essay, and shortly afterwards was elected to a fellowship in his college, See also:Keble, See also:Newman and, See also:Arnold being among his contemporaries . Having See also:left the university in 1816 he held successively a number of curacies, and in 1827 he published Essays on the Philosophical See also:Evidence of See also:Christianity, followed by a See also:volume of Parochial Sermons illustrative of the Importance of the See also:Revelation of See also:God in Jesus See also:Christ (1828) . In 1829 he returned to Oxford and was See also:Bampton lecturer in 1832 . Notwithstanding a See also:charge of Arianism now brought against him by the Tractarian party, he in 1833 passed from a tutorship at Oriel to the principalship of St See also:Mary's See also:Hall . In 1834 he was appointed See also:professor of moral See also:philosophy, and despite much university opposition, Regius' professor of divinity in 1836 . There resulted a widespread and violent though ephemeral controversy, after the subsidence of which he published a Lecture on Tradition, which passed through several See also:editions, and a volume on The See also:Thirty-nine Articles of the See also:Church of See also:England . His nomination by See also:Lord See also:John See also:Russell to the vacant see of See also:Hereford in See also:December 1847 was again the See also:signal for a violent and organized opposition; and his See also:consecration in See also:March 1848 took See also:place in spite of a remonstrance by many of the bishops and the resistance of Dr John Merewether, the See also:dean of Hereford, who went so far as to See also:vote against the See also:election when the conga d'elire reached the See also:chapter . As See also:bishop of Hereford Dr See also:Hampden made no See also:change in his See also:long-formed habits of studious seclusion, and though he showed no See also:special ecclesiastical activity or zeal, the See also:diocese certainly prospered in his charge . Among the more important of his later writings were the articles on See also:Aristotle, See also:Plato and See also:Socrates, contributed to the eighth edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, and afterwards reprinted with additions under the See also:title of The Fathers of See also:Greek Philosophy (See also:Edinburgh, 1862) . In 1866 he had a paralytic seizure, and died in See also:London on the 23rd of See also:April 1868 . His daughter, Henrietta Hampden, published Some Memorials of R .

D . Hampden in 1871 . HAMPDEN-See also:

SIDNEY, a See also:village of See also:Prince See also:Edward See also:county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., about 7o m . S.W. of See also:Richmond . Pop. about 350 . Daily stages connect the village with Farmville (pop. in 1910, 2971), the county-seat, 6 m . N.E., which is served by the See also:Norfolk & Western and the Tidewater & Western See also:railways . Hampden-Sidney is the seat of Hampden-Sidney College, founded by the See also:presbytery of See also:Hanover county as Hampden-Sidney See also:Academy in 1776, and named in See also:honour of John Hampden and Algernon Sidney . It was incorporated as Hampden-Sidney College in 1783 . The incorporators included See also:James See also:Madison, See also:Patrick See also:Henry (who is believed to have drafted the college See also:charter), See also:Paul See also:Carrington, See also:William Cabell, Sen., and Nathaniel Venable . The See also:Union Theological School was established in connexion with the college in 1812, but in 1898 was removed to Richmond, Virginia . In 1907-1908 the college had 8 instructors, 125 students, and a library of 11,000 volumes .

The college has maintained a high See also:

standard of instruction, and many of its former students have been prominent as public men, educationalists and preachers . Among them were See also:President William Henry See also:Harrison, William H . Cabell (1772-1853), president of the Virginia See also:Court of Appeals; See also:George M . Bibb (1772-1859), secretary of the See also:treasury (1844-1845) in President See also:Tyler's See also:cabinet; William B . See also:Preston (1805-1862), secretary of the See also:navy in 1849-1850; William Cabell See also:Rives and See also:General See also:Sterling See also:Price (1809-1867) .

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