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GEORGE SMALRIDGE (1663-1719)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 249 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:SMALRIDGE (1663-1719)  , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born at See also:Lichfield, where he received his See also:early See also:education, this being completed at See also:Westminster school and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford . His See also:political opinions were largely modelled on those of his friend See also:Francis See also:Atterbury, with whom he was associated at Oxford and elsewhere . After being a See also:tutor at Christ Church, he was See also:minister of two chapels in See also:London, and for six or seven years he acted as See also:deputy for the regius See also:professor of divinity at Oxford; his Jacobite opinions, however, prevented him from securing this position when it See also:fell vacant in 1707 . In 1711 he was made See also:dean of See also:Carlisle and See also:canon of Christ Church, and in 1713 he succeeded Atterbury as dean of Christ Church . In the following See also:year he was appointed bishop of See also:Bristol, but retained his deanery . In 1715 See also:Smalridge refused to sign the See also:declaration against the pre-See also:tender, See also:James See also:Edward, defending his See also:action in his Reasons for not See also:signing the Declaration . In other ways also he showed animus against the See also:house of See also:Hanover, but his only See also:punishment was his removal from the See also:post of See also:lord See also:almoner to the See also:king . He died on the 27th of See also:September 1719 . The bishop was esteemed by See also:Swift, See also:Steele, See also:Whiston and other famous men of his See also:day, while Dr See also:Johnson declared his sermons to be of the highest class . His Sixty Sermons, preached on Several Occasions, was published in 1726; other See also:editions 1827, 1832, 1853 and 1862 .

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