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    year was elected scholar . In 1774 , he was admitted to his degree of B , A . which he obtained with credit to his College and himself , and was elected Fellow in 1775 , and proceeded M . A . in 1777 . In 1793 ? be was elected college-preacher , and , in November . 1797 , was advanced into the

    Seniority . He was ordained deacon , March 3 d , 1776 , in Park-street Chapel , Westminster , by Dr Philip Young , then Bishop of Norwich ; and afterwards entered on the curacies of Nowton and Great

    Welnatham , in the neighbourhood of Bury . On June 15 th , \ J 77 » he was ordained priest in Trinity College Chapel , by Dr . HinchlifFe , then Bishop of Peterborough and Master

    of the College . But in the course of his studying the scriptures , he was led to distinguish between the revealed word of God , and the accumulated and heterogeneous doctrines and commandments of men . fie

    seriously considered and weighed the respect which was severally due to divine and human authority ; and the unqualified assent which every official repetition of the public service of the church not only implied , but was understood to express . It was

    not , however , till after the coolest deliberation , and most entire conviction , that he determined never to repeat his subscription to the thirtynine articles for any preferment which he might become entitled to from the college patronage , or which might be offered to him from anv other

    quarter . Agreeably to and consistently with this state of mind , he resigned , at Midsummer , 1789 > the ^ c / iracies in which he was then en-Imaged , and resolved thenceforward to decline officiating in the ministry . Mr . Garnham ' s health was never

    robust , and during the last five or six years of his life lie suffered much from sickness , which prevented his residing at Cam bridge , after the death of his father , in 1798 , and indisposed and disqualified him from $ pursuing his former application to his studies . His indisposition and infirmities continued to increase , and , in the

    summer of 1801 , he evidently appeared to be" much broken . He was long sensible of his generally declining health ; and so lately as the 4 th of May , a few weeks before his death , he expressed this sentiment , in a pri-

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    vate letter , to the writer of this short memoir . — " I shall never again ( raid he ) be able to read through an octavo volume > and I have several times the lust winter seriously thought my death was not far distant . Perhaps , if the ensuing summer be a

    favourable one , 1 may rally a little ; if not , 1 shall despair , and expect to depart , without either feeling jor occasioning a prodigious quantity of regret . " For some short time he had complained of an asthma , and on the Saturday preceding his death , was attacked with an inflammation on the

    lungs and breast . He continued till the morning of the following Thursday , June 24 th , 1802 , when he departed this life , in the 50 th year of his age ; and was buried in the

    chancel of Nowton Church , on Tuesday the 29 th , with all the privacy consistent with customary decejicy , "which he enjoined his executors to

    obserye-Mr , Garnhani was well qualified , from his store of general learning , and from his excellent judgment , to iiave shone in the most distinguished society ; but his natural temper

    disposed him to retirement from the busy hum of men ; He was , therefore * generally reserved in mixed and numerous companies j but he greatly enjoyed the social intercourse of rational arid liberal minds . With his

    select and confidential friends , he was unrestrained in his commuuications ; nor was he less confidential in any trust reposed in him , than he was devoted to support every profession of friendship . His attainments , taste , and success in biblical criticism , and

    generally in classical literature , as also his acumen in theological controversy , may be satisfactorily ascertained by a reference to his writings . These were , indeed , anonymous j but the means of access to then ) will

    be made easy by the subjoined catalogue : and , if an ardour for truth , acuteuess of discernment , soundness of judgment , and clearness of reasoning , —if freedom of inquiry , conducted with a happy mixture of wit and

    argument , where the subject or occasion admitted , can recommend theological literature , his writings will be read and respected Wjher « ryer they are known . His private ^ ojrjr ^ - pQ . n ( j [ ence was peculiarly marked fiy accurate observations ou the signs of

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    14 Memoir of the Rev * Robert Edward Garnhaw .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1815, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1756/page/14/