See also:JOHN See also:HULSE (1708-1790)
, See also:English divine, was See also:born—the eldest of a See also:family of nineteen—at See also:Middlewich, in See also:Cheshire, in 1708
.
Entering St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1724, he graduated in 1728; and on taking orders (in 1732) was presented to a small See also:country curacy
.
His See also:father having died in 1753, See also:Hulse succeeded to his estates in Cheshire, where, owing to feeble See also:health, he lived in retirement till his See also:death in See also:December 1790
.
He bequeathed his estates to Cambridge University for the purpose of maintaining two divinity scholars (£3o a See also:year each) at St John's College, of See also:founding a See also:prize for a dissertation, and of instituting the offices of See also:Christian See also:advocate and of Christian preacher or Hulsean lecturer
.
By a See also:statute in 186o the Hulsean professorship of divinity was substituted for the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of Christian advocate, and the lectureship was considerably modified
.
The first course of lectures under the benefaction was delivered in 1820
.
In 183o the number of See also:annual lectures or sermons was reduced from twenty to eight; after 1861 they were further reduced to a minimum of four
.
The annual value of the Hulse endowment is between goo and £coo, of which eight-tenths go to the See also:professor of divinity and one-tenth to the prize and lectureship respectively
.
An See also:account of the Hulsean lectures from 182o to 1894 is given in J
.
See also:Hunt's Religious Thought in the 19th See also:Century, 332-338; among the lecturers have been See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Alford (1C41), R
.
C
.
See also:Trench (1845), See also:Christopher See also:Wordsworth (1847), See also:Charles See also:Merivale (186,), See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Moorhouse (1865), F
.
W
.
See also:Farrar (187o), F
.
J
.
A
.
See also:Hort (1871), W
.
See also:Boyd See also:Carpenter (1878)
.
W
.
See also:Cunningham (1885), M
.
See also:Creighton (1893)
.
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