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CHRISTOPHER See also: English divine and See also: scholar, youngest See also: brother of the poet See also: William Words-worth, was
See also: born on the 9th of See also: June 1774, and was educated at Trinity See also: College, Cambridge, where he became a See also: fellow in 1798
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Twelve years later he received the degree of D.D
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He took See also: holy orders, and obtained successive preferments through the See also: patron-age of See also: Manners Sutton, See also: bishop of Norwich, afterwards (1805) archbishop of See also: Canterbury, to whose son See also: Charles (afterwards
See also: Speaker of the See also: House of See also: Commons, and viscount Canterbury) he had been tutor
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He had in 1802 attracted See also: attention by his defence of Granville See also: Sharp's then novel See also: canon " on the uses of the definitive article" in New Testament textual See also: criticism
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In 18ro he published an Ecclesiastical Biography in 6 volumes
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On the See also: death of Bishop Mansel, in 1820, he was elected Master of Trinity, and retained that position till 1841, when he resigned
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He is regarded as the See also: father of the See also: modern " classical tripos," since he had, as See also: vice-chancellor, originated in 1821 a proposal for a public examination in See also: classics and divinity, which, though then rejected, See also: bore fruit in 1822
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Otherwise his mastership was undistinguished, and he was not a popular See also: head with the college
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He died on the 2nd of See also: February 1846, at Buxted
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In his Who wrote Ikon Basiiike
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(1824), and in other writings, he advocated the claims of Charles I. to its authorship; and in 1836 hepublished, in 4 volumes, a See also: work of Christian Institutes, selected from English divines
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He married in 1804 See also: Miss Priscilla Lloyd (d
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1815), a See also: sister of Charles Lamb's friend Charles Lloyd; and he had three sons, See also: John W
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(1805–1839), Charles (q.v.), and Christopher (q.v.); the two latter both became bishops, and John, who became a fellow and classical lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, was an industrious and erudite scholar
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