See also:JOHN See also:SAUL See also:HOWSON (1816-1885)
, See also:English divine, was See also:born at Giggleswick-in-See also:Craven, See also:Yorkshire, on the 5th of May 1816
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After receiving his See also:early See also:education at Giggleswick school, of which. his See also:father was See also:head-See also:master, he went to Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and there became See also:tutor successively to the See also:marquis of See also:Sligo and the marquis of Lorne
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In 1845 See also:Howson, having taken orders, accepted the See also:post of See also:senior classical master at the See also:Liver-See also:pool College under his friend W
.
J
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See also:Conybeare, whom he succeeded as See also:principal in 1849
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This post he held until 1865, and it was largely due to his See also:influence that a similar college for girls was established at See also:Liverpool
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In 1866 he See also:left Liverpool for the vicarage of See also:Wisbech, and in 1867 he was appointed See also:dean of See also:Chester See also:Cathedral, where he gave himself vigorously to the See also:work of restoring the crumbling fabric, See also:collecting nearly £1oo,000 in five years for this purpose
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His sympathies were with the evangelical party, and he stoutly opposed the " Eastward position," but he was by no means narrow
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He did much to reintroduce the See also:ministry of See also:women as deaconesses
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The See also:building of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's School for boys, and the See also:Queen's School for girls (both in Chester), was due in a See also:great measure to the active See also:interest which he took in educational matters
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He died at See also:Bournemouth on the 15th of See also:December 1885, and was buried in the See also:cloister See also:garth of Chester
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Howson's See also:chief See also:literary See also:production was The See also:Life and Epistles of St See also:Paul (1852) in which he collaborated with Conybeare
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Adventures in the IVildr of See also:Australia (18J4), See also:Land, Labour and See also:Gold; or, Two Years in See also:Victoria (1855) and Tallangetta, the Squatter's See also:Home (18J7)
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On his return to See also:England Howitt had settled at See also:Highgate and resumed his indefatigable See also:book-making
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From 1856 to 1862 he was engaged on See also:Cassell's Illustrated See also:History of England, and from 1861 to 1864 he and his wife worked at the Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great See also:Britain
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The Howitts had left the Society of See also:Friends in 1847, and became interested in See also:spiritualism
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In 1863 appeared The History of the Super-natural in all Ages and Nations, and in all Churches, See also:Christian and See also:Pagan, demonstrating a Universal Faith, by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Howitt
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He added " his own conclusions from a See also:practical examination of the higher phenomena through a course of seven years." From 1870 onwards Howitt `spent the summers in See also:Tirol and the winters in See also:Rome, where he died on the 3rd of See also:March 1879
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See also:Mary Howitt was much affected by his See also:death, and in 1882 she joined the See also:Roman See also:Catholic 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, towards which she had been gradually moving during her connexion with spiritualism
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She died at Rome on the 3oth of See also:January 1888
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The Howitts are remembered for their untiring efforts to provide wholesome and instructive literature
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Their son, See also:Alfred William Howitt, made himself a name by his explorations in Australia
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See also:Anna Mary Howitt married See also:Alaric Alfred See also:Watts, and was the author of Pioneers of the Spiritual See also:Reformation (1883)
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Mary Howitt's autobiography was edited by her daughter,See also:Margaret Howitt, in 1889
.
William Howitt wrote some fifty books, and his wife's publications, inclusive of See also:translations, number over a See also:hundred
.
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