[549] Possibly in his _Twelve Questions or Arguments drawn out of Scripture, wherein the commonly received Opinion touching the Deity of the Holy Spirit is clearly and fully refuted_, 1647. This was his first heretical work, and it was followed by a number of others that were written during the intervals in which the Puritan parliament allowed him out of prison. It was burned by the hangman as blasphemous. Biddle finally died in prison, unrepentant to the last. [550] The first edition of the anonymous [Greek: Haireseon anastasis] (by Vicars?) appeared in 1805. [551] Possibly by Thomas Pearne (c. 1753-1827), a fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, and a Unitarian minister. [552] Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, was borne in London in 1593, and was executed there in 1641. He was privy councilor to Charles I, and was Lord Deputy of Ireland. On account of his repressive measures to uphold the absolute power of the king he was impeached by the Long Parliament and was executed for treason. The essence of his defence is in the sentence quoted by De Morgan, to which Pym replied that taken as a whole, the acts tended to show an intention to change the government, and this was in itself treason. [553] The name assumed by a writer who professed to give a mathematical explanation of the Trinity, see farther on.--S. E. De M. [554] Sabellius (fl. 230 A.D.) was an early Christian of Libyan origin. He taught that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were different names for the same person. [555] Sir Richard Phillips was born in London in 1767 (not 1768 as stated above), and died there in 1840. He was a bookseller and printer in Leicester, where he also edited a radical newspaper. He went to London to live in 1795 and started the _Monthly Magazine_ there in 1796. Besides the works mentioned by De Morgan he wrote on law and economics. [556] It was really eighteen months. [557] While he was made sheriff in 1807 he was not knighted until the following year. [558] James Mitchell (c. 1786-1844) was a London actuary, or rather a Scotch actuary living a good part of his life in London. Besides the work mentioned he compiled a _Dictionary of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology_ (1823), and wrote _On the Plurality of Worlds_ (1813) and _The Elements of Astronomy_ (1820). [559] Richarda Smith, wife of Sir George Biddell Airy (see note 129, page 85) the astronomer. In 1835 Sir Robert Peel offered a pension of L300 a year to Airy, who requested that it be settled on his wife. [560] Mary Fairfax (1780-1872) married as her second husband Dr. William Somerville. In 1826 she presented to the Royal Society a paper on _The Magnetic Properties of the Violet Rays of the Solar Spectrum_, which attracted much attention. It was for her _Mechanism of the Heavens_ (1831), a popular translation of Laplace's _Mecanique Celeste_, that she was pensioned. [561] Dominique Francois Jean Arago (1786-1853) the celebrated French astronomer and physicist.