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JOHN HULSE (1708-1790)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 871 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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 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 Moorhouse (1865), F .

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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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