A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation — John Shaqi
A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the ReformationWilliams, Robert
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A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation
Williams, Robert
Wales -- Biography
_John Wynne_, was born at Caerwys, Flintshire, and was educated for some
time at Northop School, from whence he removed to Ruthin, and received
his academical education at Jesus’ College, Oxford, where he obtained a
fellowship. He became rector of Llangelynin, in Caernarvonshire, and
prebendary of Brecon. He was appointed also the Lady Margaret’s
professor of divinity, and by virtue of that, he had a prebend in
Worcester Cathedral in 1705. He was elected principal of Jesus’ College
in 1712, and was advanced to the bishopric of St. Asaph in 1714. He was
a very learned divine, and extremely liberal in the repairing of his
cathedral, which had suffered great damage by a violent storm soon after
his appointment. He was translated to the diocese of Bath and Wells in
1727, and died in July, 1743.
_John Huddleston Wynne_, an eminent writer on miscellaneous subjects, was
born of a respectable family in Wales in 1743. He was brought up to the
profession of a printer, which he followed for some time in London; he
afterwards obtained a commission in the army, which he quitted and
commenced author. His principal works are “A General History of the
British Empire in America,” and “A History of Ireland.” He died in 1788.
His uncle,
_Richard Wynne_, M.A., of All Soul’s College, Oxford, was rector of St.
Alphage, London, and of Ayot St. Lawrence, in Hertfordshire. He
published the New Testament in English, carefully collated with the
Greek, two volumes, octavo. He died in 1799.
_Philip Yorke_, an eminent antiquarian, and author of a learned work
entitled “The Royal Tribes of Wales,” was born at Erddig, near Wrexham,
in Denbighshire, in 1743. After a liberal education, he was entered at
Benet College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. He represented
successively in parliament the boroughs of Halston and Grantham. He died
in 1804.
ADDENDA.
_John Bradford_, an ingenious poet, who was admitted a disciple of the
bardic chair of Glamorgan, in 1730, being then a boy; presided in the
same chair 1760, and died in 1780. He wrote several moral pieces of
great merit, some of which he printed in the “Eurgrawn,” a magazine then
carried on in South Wales.
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