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WILLIAM WOTTON (1666-1727)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 837 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM WOTTON (1666-1727)  ,
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English scholar, son of the Rev . Henry Wotton, was born in his
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father's parish of Wrentham, Suffolk, on the 13th of August 1666 . He was not yet ten years old when he was sent to Catherine Hall, Cambridge, having by this time a good knowledge of Latin, Greek and
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Hebrew . He obtained a fellowship at St John's College, and was elected an F.R.S. in 1687 . Wotton is chiefly remembered for his share in the controversy about the respective merits of ancient and
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modern learning . In his Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning (1694, and again 1697) he took the
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part of the moderns, although in a
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fair and judicial spirit, and was attacked by Swift in the
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Battle of the Books . During some of his later years Wotton resided in Wales and gave himself to the study of
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Celtic, making a
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translation of the
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laws of Howel Dda, which was published after his
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death (1730) . Having taken
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holy orders, he was a prebend of Salisbury from 1705 until his death at Buxted, Essex, on the 13th of
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February 1727 . Wotton wrote a
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History of Rome (1701) and
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Miscellaneous Discoveries
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relating to the Traditions and Usages of the
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Scribes and
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Pharisees (1718) .

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