Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Richard Hammond, Beilby Porteus, Paul Hullah, William Stubbs, David Curry, David George Kendall, Matthew Hutton, Bruce Oldfield, Francis Pigou, Peter Squires. Excerpt: Beilby Porteus Beilby Porteus or Porteous (May 8, 1731 May 13, 1809), successively Bishop of Chester and of London was an Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the Church's position on slavery . Early life Although the Porteus family was of Scottish ancestry, his parents were Virginian planters who had returned to England during the difficult times and economic problems in that province during the early eighteenth century and who in 1720, for the sake of his father Robert s health, eventually relocated to York, where Beilby was born in 1731, last but one of nineteen children. Educated at York and Ripon, he was a classics scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge, becoming a fellow in 1752. In 1759 he won the Seatonian Prize for his poem Death: A Poetical Essay, a work for which he is still remembered. He was ordained as a priest in 1757, and in 1762 was appointed as domestic chaplain to Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, acting as his personal assistant at Lambeth Palace for six years. It was during these years that it is thought he became more aware of the conditions of the enslaved Africans in the American colonies and the British West Indies . He corresponded with clergy and missionaries, receiving reports on the appalling conditions facing the slaves from Rev. James Ramsay in the West Indies and from Granville Sharp, the English lawyer who had supported the cases of freed slaves in England. In 1769 Beilby Porteus was appointed as chaplain to King George III . He is listed as one of the lenten preachers at ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Old Riponians: Richard Hammond, Beilby Porteus, Paul Hullah, William Stubbs, David Curry, David George Kendall, Matthew Hutton, Bruce Oldfield. To get started finding Old Riponians: Richard Hammond, Beilby Porteus, Paul Hullah, William Stubbs, David Curry, David George Kendall, Matthew Hutton, Bruce Oldfield, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2010
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Old Riponians: Richard Hammond, Beilby Porteus, Paul Hullah, William Stubbs, David Curry, David George Kendall, Matthew Hutton, Bruce Oldfield
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Richard Hammond, Beilby Porteus, Paul Hullah, William Stubbs, David Curry, David George Kendall, Matthew Hutton, Bruce Oldfield, Francis Pigou, Peter Squires. Excerpt: Beilby Porteus Beilby Porteus or Porteous (May 8, 1731 May 13, 1809), successively Bishop of Chester and of London was an Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the Church's position on slavery . Early life Although the Porteus family was of Scottish ancestry, his parents were Virginian planters who had returned to England during the difficult times and economic problems in that province during the early eighteenth century and who in 1720, for the sake of his father Robert s health, eventually relocated to York, where Beilby was born in 1731, last but one of nineteen children. Educated at York and Ripon, he was a classics scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge, becoming a fellow in 1752. In 1759 he won the Seatonian Prize for his poem Death: A Poetical Essay, a work for which he is still remembered. He was ordained as a priest in 1757, and in 1762 was appointed as domestic chaplain to Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, acting as his personal assistant at Lambeth Palace for six years. It was during these years that it is thought he became more aware of the conditions of the enslaved Africans in the American colonies and the British West Indies . He corresponded with clergy and missionaries, receiving reports on the appalling conditions facing the slaves from Rev. James Ramsay in the West Indies and from Granville Sharp, the English lawyer who had supported the cases of freed slaves in England. In 1769 Beilby Porteus was appointed as chaplain to King George III . He is listed as one of the lenten preachers at ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Old Riponians: Richard Hammond, Beilby Porteus, Paul Hullah, William Stubbs, David Curry, David George Kendall, Matthew Hutton, Bruce Oldfield. To get started finding Old Riponians: Richard Hammond, Beilby Porteus, Paul Hullah, William Stubbs, David Curry, David George Kendall, Matthew Hutton, Bruce Oldfield, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.