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Mr * John Kiddei , a native of Tiverton , in Devonshire ^ was born in 1735-1 . It is probable that he received his classical learning at the Free Grammar School in that town , founded in 1604 , by Mr * Peter Blundel , a native of it and a clothier . The master of
this school at the period of Mr . Kiddel ' s youth , was Mr . William Rayner ^ a good classic and an excellent master , under whose tuition were educated many respectable scholars . A brother of Mr . Kiddel , a solicitor , in a poem , called Tiverton , celebrates his learning *
u Slrilrd in all tongues , see Rayner treads the stage : Severe his virtue—awful in h \ s age . While others follow all the miisty rules Of barbVous monks , or slow phlegmatic fools :
From eVry weed , lo ! Rayner clears the ground ; And in his grammar all the man is found . " Mr . Kiddel commenced his
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academical studies under the Rev . John Moore , M . A . who , for many years ^ presided over a seminary at Bridge water , in Somersetshire . He finished them under
the learned Mr . John Eames , at London . In this latter part of his academical course , he was favoured with the friendship and free conversation of Dr . Watts .
On finishing it , he returned to his native town ; and in 1742 on the death , of Mr . Joseph Pyke , a respectable minister and a man of
polite address , he and Mr . John Rudge were ordained pastors of the congregation at the Pitt meeting-house , and alternately officiated to that and to another
congregation at Puddington . Mr * Rudge died 20 th September , 1748 , when the pastoral care of the former congregation , then numerous and respectable , devolved on Mr . Kiddel . He continued in
this connection forty-five years , till 1787- In the mean time , the society was much reduced by
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THE MONTH LY REPOSITORY '• ¦ i OF Theology and General Literature .
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BRIEF MEMOIR OF T&E tATE KEV # JOHN XlDt > EL ; BY DR , TOULMiJT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/1/
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