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He was born at Congreve, in the parish of Penkridge, Staffordshire, where his father was a farmer.
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Moral and Political Dialogues: Dialogues 7-8. On the Uses of Foreign Travel Between Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. Locke. 12 Letters On Chivalry and Romance
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Letters on chivalry and romance.
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Remarks on a late book, entitled, An enquiry into the rejection of the christian miracles by the heathens.
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Richard Hurd
Richard Hurd was an English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester.
Education
He was educated at Brewood Grammar School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Career
He took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1739, and in 1742 he proceeded Master of Arts and became a fellow of his college. In the same year he was ordained deacon, and given charge of the parish of Reymerston, Norfolk, but he returned to Cambridge early in 1743. He was ordained priest in 1744.
In 1748 he published some Remarks on an Enquiry into the Rejection of Christian Miracles by the Heathens (1746), by William Weston, a fellow of Street John"s College, Cambridge.
In 1765 he was appointed preacher at Lincoln"s Inn, and in 1767 he became archdeacon of Gloucester. In 1768, he proceeded Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge, and delivered at Lincoln"s Inn the first Warburton lectures, which were published later (1772) as An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies concerning the Christian Church.
He became bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in 1774, and two years later was selected to be tutor to the prince of Wales and the duke of New York In 1781 he was translated to the see of Worcester.
He lived chiefly at Hartlebury Castle, where he built a fine library, to which he transferred Alexander Pope"s and Warburton"s books, purchased on the latter"s death.
He was extremely popular at court, and in 1783, on the death of Archbishop Cornwallis, the king pressed him to accept the primacy, but Hurd, who was known, says Madame d"Arblay, as "The Beauty of Holiness,” declined it as a charge not suited to his temper and talents, and much too heavy for him to sustain. He died, unmarried, on 28 May 1808. He bequeathed his library to his successors as bishop, and it remains at Hartlebury Castle, but its fate remains uncertain, now that the castle has ceased to be used as the bishop"s residence.
Achievements
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He prepared editions, which won the praise of Edward Gibbon, of the Ars poetica and Epistola ad Pisones (1749), and the Epistola ad Augustum (1751) of Horace.
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Letters on chivalry and romance.
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Remarks on a late book, entitled, An enquiry into the rejection of the christian miracles by the heathens.
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An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies Concerning the Christian Church: And in Particular, Concerning the Church of Papal Rome; In Twelve Ser
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Moral and Political Dialogues: Dialogues 7-8. On the Uses of Foreign Travel Between Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. Locke. 12 Letters On Chivalry and Romance
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Letters on chivalry and romance.
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- William Warburton
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March 28, 1808 (aged 88) -
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Hartlebury churchyard, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom -
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Religion
Christian Church
Official Titles
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Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Bishop of Worcester