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See also: English divine and See also: scholar, was See also: born at Halkyn, See also: Flint, the son of See also: Rowland See also: Williams (d
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1854), See also: canon of St See also: Asaph, and educated at See also: Eton and See also: Cam-See also: bridge
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He was elected See also: fellow of See also: King's
See also: College, Cambridge, in 1839, and took orders in 1842
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During the next few years he actively opposed the amalgamation of the See also: sees of St Asaph and See also: Bangor
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In 1850 he became See also: vice-See also: principal and See also: Hebrew lecturer at St See also: David's College, See also: Lampeter, where he introduced much-needed educational and See also: financial reforms
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He was appointed select preacher of Cambridge University in 1854, and preached a See also: sermon on inspiration, afterwards published in his Rational Godliness after the Mind of Christ and the Written Voices of the See also: Church (
See also: London, 1855)
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He was charged with heterodoxy, and See also: Alfred 011ivant (1798-1882), See also: bishop of See also: Llandaff, required him to resign his chaplaincy, but he remained at the college in spiteof these difficulties
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His views were further defined in See also: Christianity and See also: Hinduism (Cambridge, 1856), an expansion of the Muir prize essay which he had won in 1848
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He became See also: vicar in 1858 of Broadchalke with Bowerchalke and Alvedistone, See also: Wiltshire
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As a result of his favourable review of See also: Bunsen's " Biblical Re-searches " contributed to Essays and Reviews (186o) he was prosecuted for heterodoxy
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An unfavourable See also: judgment was given by the See also: Canterbury See also: Court of See also: Arches in 1862, but reversed by the Privy Council in 1864
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Williams died on the 18th of See also: January 187o
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Besides the above See also: works his most important production was a See also: translation of the Hebrew Prophets with commentary (pt. i
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1866; pt. ii. edited by Mrs Williams 1871; pt. iii. though planned was never written)
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See See also: Life and Letters, edited by Mrs Williams (2 vols., 1874) ; and T
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See also: Cheyne, Founders of Old Testament See also: Criticism (1893)
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