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WILLIAM THOMSON (1819-189o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 876 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:THOMSON (1819-189o)  , See also:English divine, See also:archbishop of See also:York, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:February 1819 at See also:Whitehaven, See also:Cumberland . He was educated at See also:Shrewsbury and at See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he became a See also:scholar . He took his B.A. degree in 184o, and was soon afterwards made See also:fellow of his college . He was ordained in 1842, and worked as a See also:curate at Cuddesdon . In 1847 he was made See also:tutor of his college, and in 1853 he delivered the See also:Bampton lectures, his subject being " The Atoning See also:Work of See also:Christ viewed in Relation to some See also:Ancient Theories." These thoughtful and learned lectures established his reputation and did much to clear the ground for subsequent discussions on the subject . See also:Thomson's activity was not confined to See also:theology . He was made fellow of the Royal and the Royal See also:Geographical See also:Societies . He also wrote a very popular Outline of the See also:Laws of Thought . He sided with the party at Oxford which favoured university reform, but this did not prevent him from being appointed See also:provost of his college in 1855• In 1858 he was made preacher at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn and there preached some striking sermons, a See also:volume of which he published in 1861 . In the same See also:year he edited See also:Aids to Faith, a volume written in opposition to Essays and Reviews, the progressive sentiments of which had stirred up a See also:great See also:storm in the See also:Church of See also:England . In See also:December 1861 he was rewarded with the see of See also:Gloucester and See also:Bristol, and within a twelvemonth he was elevated to the archiepiscopal see of York . In this position his moderate orthodoxy led him to join Archbishop See also:Tait in supporting the Public See also:Worship Regulation See also:Act, and, as See also:president of the See also:northern See also:convocation, he came frequently into See also:sharp collision with the See also:lower See also:house of that See also:body .

But if he thus incuned the hostility of the High Church party among the See also:

clergy, he was admired by the laity for his strong sense, his clear and forcible reasoning, and his wide knowledge, and he remained to the last a See also:power in the See also:north of England . In his later years he published an address read before the members of the See also:Edinburgh Philosophical Institution (1868), one on See also:Design in Nature, for the See also:Christian See also:Evidence Society, which reached a fifth edition, various charges and See also:pastoral addresses, and he was one of the projectors of The See also:Speaker's Commentary, for which he wrote the " Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels." He died on the 25th of December 1890 . See the Quarterly See also:Review (See also:April 1892) .

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