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JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE (1775-1841)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 601 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE (1775-1841)  ,
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British theologian and poet, was born at Seville on the filth of
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July 1775 . He was educated for the
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Roman Catholic priesthood; but after his ordination (1800) religious doubts led him to escape from Spain to England (181o), where he ultimately entered the
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Anglican Church, having studied
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theology at Oxford and made the friendship of Arnold, Newman and Whatel.y . He became tutor in the
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family of the last-named when he was made archbishop of
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Dublin (1831) . While in this position he embraced Unitarian views; and he found an asylum amongst the Unitarians of Liverpool, where he died on the 20th of May 1841 . White edited El Espanol, a monthly
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Spanish
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magazine in
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London, from 1810 to 1814, and afterwards received a
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civil list pension of £250 . His
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principal writings are Doblado's Letters from Spain (1822); Evidence against Catholicism (1825); Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion (2 vols., 1834); Observations on
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Heresy and Orthodoxy (1835) . They all show
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literary ability, and were extensively read in their day . He also translated Paley's Evidences and the
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Book of
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Common Prayer into Spanish . He is best remembered, however, by his sonnet "
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Night and
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Death" ("Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew "), which was dedicated to S . T . Coleridge on its appearance in the Bijou for 1828 and has since found its way into several anthologies . Three versions are given in the Academy of the 12th of September 1891 .

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Life of the Rev . Joseph Blanco White, written by himself, with portions of his Correspondence, edited by John Hamilton Thom (London, 3 vols., 1845) .

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