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He was born on 7 March 1694 at Great Salkeld, Cumberland.
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Caleb Rotheram
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In 1716 he became minister of the dissenting congregation at Kendal, Westmorland. After Dixon"s death (1729) he took up from 1733 the work of a dissenting academy at Kendal, where he educated about 120 laymen, including Jeremiah Dyson, and fifty-six divinity students, among whom was George Walker. In 1743 he visited Edinburgh, where he was admitted Master of Arts, and gained the degree of Doctor of Divinity by public disputation on 27 May.
His theology, and that of most of his divinity pupils, was Arian.
He died at Hexham on 8 June 1752, and was buried in the south aisle of the abbey church, where was a mural monument to his memory.
