Zachary Pearce
Dean of Westminster | |
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Personal details | |
Born | 8 September 1690 |
Died | 29 June 1774 |
Nationality | English/British |
Denomination | Church of England |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Zachary Pearce, sometimes known as Zachariah (8 September 1690 – 29 June 1774), was an English Bishop of Bangor and Bishop of Rochester. He was a controversialist and a notable early critical writer defending John Milton,[1] attacking Richard Bentley's 1732 edition of Paradise Lost the following year.
Life
Pearce was born the son of Thomas or John Pearce, a distiller, in 1690 in the parish of St Giles, High Holborn. He first attended Great Ealing School.[2] and then Westminster School. He graduated BA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1713/4 and MA in 1717.[3]
He was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1716–1720) [4] and chaplain to the Lord Chancellor, Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield.
Parker became his patron, to whom Pearce dedicated an edition of the
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1720.[6] Towards the end of Isaac Newton's life, Pearce assisted him on chronology[7]
There is a monument to Pearce in the
Works
The Miracles of Jesus Vindicated (1729) was written against Thomas Woolston. A Reply to the Letter to Dr. Waterland was against Conyers Middleton, defending Daniel Waterland; Pearce engaged in this controversy as a former student of William Wake.[9]
Other works were:
- Cicero, Dialogi tres de oratore (1716)
- Longinus, De sublimitate commentarius (1724)
- Cicero, De officiis libri tres (1745)
He also published sermons; he preached at the funeral of
References
- ^ Christopher Ricks, Milton's Grand Style, p. 9.
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- ^ "Pearce, Zachariah (PR710Z)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. Westminster.lovesguide.com. Retrieved on 2012-06-15.
- ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
- ^ Academy Thomas Anson New. Shugborough.org.uk. Retrieved on 2012-06-15.
- ^ Bromley. British-history.ac.uk (2003-06-22). Retrieved on 2012-06-15.
- ISBN 0812240162, p. 47.
- ^ Chelsea – (part 2 of 3) | British History Online. British-history.ac.uk (2003-06-22). Retrieved on 2012-06-15.
- Lives of Dr. Edward Pocock, the Celebrated Orientalist, by Dr. Twells; of Dr. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, and of Dr. Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol, by Themselves; and of the Rev. Philip Skelton, by Mr. Bundy (1818)
- Royal Society Biography[dead link]