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publications ,- ^ since vague or mistaken representation which is often repeated , sometimes assumes the confidence of truth ; it becomes necessary and proper to repeat the correction of the error of the foregoing statement . Upon the occasion alluded to > Dr . Price recommended to the
Earl of Shelburne , afterwards Marquis of Lansdown , the choice of three persons as proper to undertake the care of the education of his sons . This appointment
was proposed , on the part of his lordship , through the medium of the venerable person just mentioned , to Mr , George Walker in the first instance : but being at that time upon the point of mar * riage , Mr . Walker could not avail himself of the peculiar advantages of the Marquis of Lansdown ' s proposal , and especially
as it required residence in his lordship ' s family . This treaty , therefore , fell to the ground of course .
The other persons , mentioned to t-he Marquis by Dr . Price were the late Mr , Wood , of Leeds , and Mr . Jervis , late of Westminster , but now of Leeds . Of these two gentlemen , this appointment was
actually offered only to the latter . And in consequence of this application , Mr . Jervis had very soon after an interview with the Marquis of Lansdown , by particular
appointment , at Exeter , where he then resided . This conference with his lordship took place
pre-? Even £ C a lay-member of Mertan College , Oxford , " who has lately given us a " Life of Bishop Porteus , " with a large assortment of puffs and errors , incidentally speaks ( p . 6 i , ) of I , ansdown ' $ " selecting Dr . Priestley for the office of private tutor" to his * son .
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viousl y to the settlement of terms , which were afterwards mutiialljr agreed upon , and a cbnriectidn was accordingly formed , which was honourable and advantageous at least to one of the parties , and
whick continued till his pti ^> il th £ last Marquis of Lansdown , Wbrit to the university of Oxford .
At the time when this connection took pl&ce , Lord Lansdovfrti was in treaty with Dr . Priestley ^ hut not for any appointment to the tuition of his sons ,- which w& $ not in the contemplation of Ms lordship , was therefore nev £ r offered to , and consequently never u accepted by Dr . Priestley under" any u circumstances . * ' Ok the contrary , Dr . Priestley ^ being a family man , would be considered as on that account , disqualified of cotirsefrom
holding the situation in question , which , as already observed ^ required residence . TJfe object of Dr . Priestley ' s subsequent en . gagement with the Marquis was specificall y and distinctly tKe car ^ of his library both in town &nd in the country . His lordship no
doubt conceived that in the very considerable arrangements of his noble establishment , the siiperfntendance of his library , and the forming a scientific catalogue of his books and of his very valuable manuscripts , and an index to his curious and extensive collection
ot papers , would be committed with credit and advantage to a man of Dr . Priestley ' s rising reputation . Accordingly , Dr . Priestley ' s sole province was that of Librarian ; and wholly distinct from that of Preceptor .
And it was expressly stated by Lord L £ n&down at the time , a $ essential to his plan , that the tw #
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18 On Dr . Triesthy ' s Connection with the Marquis of Lansdown .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/18/
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