See also:CHRISTOPHER See also:WORDSWORTH (1774–1846)
, See also:English divine and See also:scholar, youngest See also:brother of the poet See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Words-See also:worth, was See also:born on the 9th of See also:June 1774, and was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also: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-See also:age of See also:Manners See also:Sutton, See also:bishop of See also:Norwich, afterwards (1805) See also: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 See also:viscount Canterbury) he had been See also:tutor
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He had in 1802 attracted See also:attention by his See also:defence of See also:Granville See also:Sharp's then novel See also:canon " on the uses of the definitive See also:article" in New Testament textual See also:criticism
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In 18ro he published an Ecclesiastical See also:Biography in 6 volumes
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On the See also:death of Bishop See also:Mansel, in 1820, he was elected See also: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-See also:chancellor, originated in 1821 a proposal for a public examination in See also:classics and divinity, which, though then rejected, See also:bore See also: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 See also:Christian Institutes, selected from English divines
.
He married in 1804 See also:Miss Priscilla See also:Lloyd (d
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1815), a See also:sister of Charles See also:Lamb's friend Charles Lloyd; and he had three sons, See also:John W
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(1805–1839), Charles (q.v.), and See also: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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