William Beveridge (bishop)

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The Right Reverend

William Beveridge

Bishop of St Asaph
William Beveridge, posthumous portrait by Benjamin Ferrers
DioceseDiocese of St Asaph
In office1704–1708 (death)
PredecessorJohn Thomas
SuccessorWilliam Fleetwood
Other post(s)Archdeacon of Colchester (1681–1704)
Personal details
Bornbaptized (1637-02-21)21 February 1637
Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire
Died5 March 1708(1708-03-05) (aged 71)
Westminster Abbey, London
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
ProfessionClergyman, author
EducationOakham School
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge

William Beveridge (1637 – 5 March 1708) was an English writer and clergyman who served as Bishop of St Asaph from 1704 until his death.

Life

Son of the Rev. William Beveridge, B.D., he was born at Barrow, near Leicester, and baptised on 21 February 1637 at Barrow, Leicestershire, of which his grandfather, father, and elder brother John were successively vicars.[1] He was first taught by his learned father and for two years was sent to Oakham School, Rutland, where William Cave was his school fellow.

On 24 May 1653 he was admitted a sizar in St John's College, Cambridge,[2] with Bullingham as his tutor. Dr. Anthony Tuckney was then head of the college, and took a special interest in young Beveridge. Beveridge specially devoted himself to the learned languages, including the oriental. In his twenty-first year he published a Latin treatise on the Excellency and Use of the Oriental Tongues, especially Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Samaritan, together with a Grammar of the Syriac Language, (1658; 2nd ed. 1664). In 1656, he proceeded H.A., and in 1660 M.A. On 3 January 1660-1 he was ordained deacon by Dr. Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln.

He was rector of

St. Asaph on 16 July 1704.[5]

He died in apartments in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey in London on 5 March 1708.

During his lifetime Beveridge refused to sit for his portrait,[6] but following his death Benjamin Ferrers, a relative, painted one, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, from his corpse.[7]

Works

In his day he was styled "the great reviver and restorer of primitive piety" because in his sermons and other writings he dwelt on the Church of the early centuries. His collected works (incomplete) are in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology in 12 volumes (Oxford, 1842–48). They contain six volumes of sermons, and in addition:

His Institutionum chronotogicarum libri duo, una cum totidem arithmetices chronologicæ libellis (London, 1669) was once an admired treatise on chronology. In it he also includes a full explanation of the

Francis Fauvel Gouraud that a discussion on Hebrew linguistics inspired Richard Grey to create his system of mnemotechniques which later evolved in to the Mnemonic major system.[9]

References

  1. ^ Nichols. History of Leicestershire. pp. iii. part i 77–78.
  2. ^ "Beveridge, William (BVRG653W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Kennett, Biog. Coll. liii. 292
  4. ^ Woodward, Account of the Rise and Progress of the Religious Societies
  5. ^ Grosart, Rev. A. B. (1885). Dictionary of National Biography. pp. 447–448.
  6. ^ Norris, John. A Catalogue of the Pictures, Models, Busts, &c. in the Bodleian gallery, Oxford. pp. 8–12.
  7. ^ "Ferrers, Benjamin" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  8. ISBN 9780486446196
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  9. ^ Fauvel-Gouraud, Francis (1845). Phreno-mnemotechny: Or, The Art of Memory. pp. 61–62.

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Church of England titles
Preceded by Archdeacon of Colchester
1681–1704 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of St Asaph
1704–1708 		Succeeded by
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