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WILLIAM SEWELL (1804-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:SEWELL (1804-1874)  , See also:English divine and author, was See also:born at See also:Newport, Isle of See also:Wight, on the 23rd of See also:January 1804, the son of a See also:solicitor . He was educated at See also:Winchester and Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford, was elected a See also:fellow of See also:Exeter College in 1827, and from 1831–1853 was a See also:tutor there . From 1836--1841 he was See also:Whyte's See also:Professor of Moral See also:Philosophy . See also:Sewell, who took See also:holy orders in 183o, was a friend of See also:Pusey, See also:Newman and See also:Keble in the earlier days of the Tractarian See also:movement, but subsequently considered that the Tractarians leaned too much. towards See also:Rome, and dissociated himself from them . When, however, in 1849, J . A . See also:Froude published his See also:Nemesis of Faith, Sewell denounced the wickedness of the See also:book to his class, and, when one of his pupils confessed to the See also:possession of a copy, seized it, tore it to pieces, and threw it in the See also:fire . In 1843 he, with some See also:friends, founded at Rathfarnham, near See also:Dublin, St See also:Columba's College, designed to be a sort of Irish See also:Eton, and in 1847 helped to found Radley College . Sewell's intention was that each of these See also:schools should be conducted on strict High See also:Church principles . He was originally himself one of the managers of St Columba, and sub-See also:warden of Radley, but his business management was not successful in either See also:case, and his See also:personal responsibility for the debts contracted by Radley caused the See also:sequestration of his Oxford fellowship . In 1862 his See also:financial difficulties compelled him to leave See also:England for See also:Germany, and he did not return till 187o . He died on the 14th of See also:November 18 His publications include See also:translations of the See also:Agamemnon (1846), Georgics (1846 and 1854) and Odes and Epodes of See also:Horace (185o) ; An Introduction to the Dialogues of See also:Plato (1841); See also:Christian Politics (1844) ; The Nation, the Church and the University of Oxford (1849) ; Christian Vestiges of Creation (1861) .

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elder See also:brother, See also:RICHARD See also:CLARKE SEWELL (1803–1864),. practised successfully as a See also:barrister in England, and then went to See also:Australia, where he obtained a large criminal practice . In 1857 he was appointed reader in See also:law to the University of Mel-See also:bourne . He was the author of a large number of legal See also:works . A younger brother, See also:HENRY SEWELL (1807–1879), who became a solicitor, acted in See also:London as secretary and See also:deputy-chairman -of the See also:Canterbury Association for the Colonization of New See also:Zealand, and eventually went out to the See also:colony, and in 1854 was elected to the See also:House of Representatives . In 1856 he became first premier of New Zealand . Subsequently he held the See also:office of See also:attorney-See also:general (1861–1863) and See also:minister of See also:justice (1864–1865 and 1869-1872) . In 1876 he returned to England, where he died on the 14th of May 1879 . Another brother, See also:JAMES See also:EDWARDS SEWELL (1810-1903), warden of New College, Oxford, was educated at Winchester and New College . In 183o he became a fellow of his College, and practically passed the See also:rest of his See also:life there, being elected to the headship in 186o . The first University See also:Commission had just released the colleges from the fetters of their See also:original statutes, and Sewell was called on to determine his attitude towards the strong reforming party in New College . Though himself instinctively conservative, he determined that it was his See also:duty to give effect to the See also:desire of the See also:majority, with the result that New College led the way in the general reform movement, and from being one of the smallest became the second largest college in Oxford . Sewell was See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university 1874–1878 .

He died in his ninety-third See also:

year on the 29th of January 1903, having been warden for 43 years, and was interred in the College cloisters . A See also:sister, See also:ELIZABETH MISSING SEWELL (1815—1906), was the735 author of Amy See also:Herbert and many other High Church novels, and of several devotional books . An edition of her works was published in eleven volumes (1886) .

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