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MR , HUBERT STOGDON , whom we have mentioned as the friend of Dr . Foster , in his retreat under'Mendip Hills * , was born in a village called Boddicot , near Ban bury , in Oxfordshire , on January 9 ? 1692 . He was the sou of Mr . llobert Stogdon , a
pious and faithful minister among the 1 ' rotestant Dissenters , by his wife Elizabeth , the daughter of the Rev . Francis Hubert , called , through an easy mistake , by Dr . Calamy , Hubbaid- \; who was ejected , by the Act of Uniformity from the livins of Barwick and
Monkton , in Wiltshire . His mother was a lady of-bright intellectual powers , united with a most virtuous ^ nd pious disposition , , When he was between five
and six years of age , on occasion of his father ' s death , in 1697 , some relations came from Devonshire , the native county of Mr . Stogdon , Sen ^ to visi t the afflicted widow and family ; and on their return took with them the eldest son Hubert . From tha £ time
Exb j ) * Mon , Rep . Vol . ii . p . 3 , f Abridgment , Vol . ii . p . 76 a . or Palmer ' s Nonconformist ' s Memorial , Vol . ii . P- 498 .
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eter became , for t-wenty years of his life , the place of his residence , and in that city , under their care and patronage , he received a regular and pious education . For , having been first placed under the
minister of the parish of Withereomb-Rawleigh , he was soon re-J moved to the free school in Exeter . His proficiency in the knowledge of the tongues attracted notice . His academical studies were
pursued under the Rev . Joseph Hallet , Senior , In this seminary he drew respect from all ; and when he had finished his course of academical learning , he received from his tutor an ample testimonial to his assiduity and progress , to his great acuteness and solid judgment , to his uncommon
genius for poetry and familiar acquaintance with the Roman poets , and especially to his eager thirst 3 , fter scriptural knowledge . " One thing I observed of him from his first conyng to me , " says Mr . Haltet , " viz . He would not entertain opinions from the judg-
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .
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No . XXXVIII . ] FEBRUARY . [ Vol . IV .
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MEMOIR OF THE REV . HUBERT STOGDOJf . f *
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VOL . JV , I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/1/
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