Joseph Bingham
Joseph Bingham (September 1668 – 17 August 1723) was an English scholar and divine, who wrote on ecclesiastical history.[1]
Life
He was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire. [2]
He was educated at
In this country retirement he began his extensive work entitled Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the Christian Church, the first volume of which appeared in 1708 and the tenth and last in 1722. His design, learnedly, exhaustively and impartially executed, was to give such a methodical account of the antiquities of the Christian Church as others have done of the Greek and Roman and Jewish antiquities, by reducing the ancient customs, usages and practices of the church under certain proper heads, whereby the reader may take a view at once of any particular usage or custom of Christians for four or five centuries.[2]
Notwithstanding his learning and merit, Bingham received no higher preferment than that of Headbourne Worthy until 1712, when he was collated to the rectory of
A grandson was Bishop Richard Mant of Down and Dromore.
He is buried in the churchyard of St Swithun's, Headbourne Worthy.
References
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bingham, Joseph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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