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

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