Background
Winstanley was born in the town of Winstanley, in what was then Lancashire, and was baptised on 11 November 1749.
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Thomas Winstanley
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Brasenose College; Manchester Grammar School.
Career
He was appointed to a fellowship at Hertford College and succeeded Thomas Warton as Camden Professor of Ancient History in 1790. He was elected principal of Street Alban Hall in 1797, and appointed as Laudian Professor of Arabic in 1814 (holding this in addition to the Camden chair). He was rector of Steyning, Sussex, between 1790 and 1792.
Prebendary of Street Paul"s Cathedral from 1794 to 1810.
And vicar of Street Nicholas and Street Clements, Rochester, Kent, from 1812. His writings included Aristotelous peri poiētikēs: Aristotelis de poetica liber (1780), and an edition of the works of Daniel Webb (1802).
Winstanley died on 2 September 1823.
Membership
After an education at Manchester Grammar School, he matriculated at the University of Oxford as a member of Brasenose College in 1768, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1711 and his Master of Arts degree in 1774.
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Arabic