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JOHN HARRIS (c. 1666-1719)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 20 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:HARRIS (c. 1666-1719)  , See also:English writer . He is best known as the editor of the See also:Lexicon technicum, or See also:Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences (1704), which ranks as the earliest of the See also:long See also:line of English encyclopaedias, and as the compiler of the Collection of Voyages and Travels which passes under his name . He was See also:born about 1666, probably in See also:Shropshire, and was a See also:scholar of Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford, from 1684 to 1688 . He was presented to the vicarage of Icklesham in See also:Sussex, and subsequently to the rectory of St See also:Thomas, See also:Winchelsea . In 1698 he was entrusted with the delivery of the seventh See also:series of the See also:Boyle lectures—Atheistical Objections against the Being of See also:God and His Attributes fairly considered and fully refuted . Between 1702 and 1704 he delivered at the Marine See also:Coffee See also:House in Birchin See also:Lane the mathematical lectures founded by See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Cox, and advertised himself as a mathematical See also:tutor at See also:Amen Corner . The friendship of Sir See also:William See also:Cowper, afterwards See also:lord See also:chancellor, secured for him the See also:office of private See also:chaplain, a prebend in See also:Rochester See also:cathedral (1708), and the rectory of the See also:united parishes of St Mildred, See also:Bread See also:Street and St See also:Margaret See also:Moses, in addition to other preferments . He showed himself an ardent supporter of the See also:government, and engaged in a See also:bitter See also:quarrel with the Rev . Charles See also:Humphreys, who afterwards was chaplain to Dr Sacheverel . See also:Harris was one of the See also:early members of the Royal Society, and for a See also:time acted as See also:vice-See also:president . At his See also:death on the 7th of See also:September 1719, he was busy completing an elaborate See also:History of See also:Kent . He is said to have died in poverty brought on by his own See also:bad management of his affairs .

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