John Ross (bishop of Exeter)
John Ross or Rosse (1719–1792) was an English Bishop of Exeter.
Life
He was born at Ross in Herefordshire, on 24 or 25 June 1719, the only son of John Rosse, attorney in that town. He was educated at the grammar school in Hereford, was admitted a pensioner at St John's College, Cambridge (April 1737), and on the following 22 June became a Somerset scholar of the third foundation at his college. He graduated B.A. 1741, M.A. 1744, B.D. 1751, D.D. 1756, and on 10 July 1744 was incorporated at Oxford.[1] From March 1744 to 1770 he held a fellowship at St. John's, and down to 1768 he discharged college duties.
In 1757 Ross was appointed to the preachership at the
. He retained the vicarage of Frome, but resigned the canonry at Durham.He disapproved of the introduction of
Works
Ross edited in 1749 letters of Cicero. When Jeremiah Markland brought out a volume of 'Remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Brutus,' and added 'a Dissertation upon Four Orations ascribed to Cicero', Ross published an ironical 'Dissertation in which the Defence of P. Sulla ascribed to Cicero is clearly proved to be spurious after the manner of Mr. Markland.' He was the author of sermons, and revised Richard Polwhele's English Orator; and was a patron to George Ashby.
Notes
- ^ "Rosse, John (RS737J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Ross, John (1719-1792)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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