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    nours on taking his degree , I mean Wranglership , but this 1 cannot positively assert . ' " Pp . 5 , 6 and Note .

    In April , 1747 , Mr . Lindsey having taken his degrees with high reputation , was elected a fellow of St . John ' s College ; and having been ordained by Dr . Gibson , the Bishop cf London , was , in the 23 rd year of his age , presented to a chapel in Spital Square ,

    London , by Sir George Wheeler , at the recommendation of Lady Ann Hastings , sister-in-law to the Baronet . Through the same interest he was , in a short time , invited , as chaplain , into the house of the Duke of Somerset , by whom and his accomplished lady , better known as the Countess of

    Hertford , he was treated with the liberality and affection of friendship . After the decease of the Duke , be continued some time in the

    family of the Dutchess , and at her particular and earnest request , accompanied her grandson , Lord Warkworth , the present Duke of Northumberland , to ihe continent ,

    where he spent two years with his noble pupil . In reward of this service , the Earl of Northumberland presented him , on his return , to the valuable rectory of Kirkby Whiske , in the North Riding of Yorkshire ; whither he hastened , declining a proposal of his patrons to attend Lord Warkworth to Eton

    as his private tutor , and com . menced parish minister . In this situation he continued about three years , during which time he formed the acquaintance with the

    family of the celebrated Archdeacon Blackburne , which had so considerable and happy an effect upon his future life . He married in 1760 , Miss Hannah EUworth ,

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    the step . daughter of the archdea ~ con , after having , at the request of the Huntingdon family , resign- * ed the living of Kirkby Whisk * for that of Piddletown , in Dorset * shire . The character of Mrs .

    Lindsey has been sketched in this work with a glowing pencil by her long and close friend , Mrs . Cappe . [ See Vol . VII . pp . 109—118 . 1 She had

    peculiarities which were sometimes unpleasant to strangers , but they arose wholly from tkat ardenj temperament and decision of character which fitted her to be the

    help-meet of a confessor and reformer . Mr . Lindsey himself described her as one " qua * quoque currentem incitat . " P . 12 , & Month . Mag . for Dec 1808 .

    While he resided at Piddletown , Mr . Lindsey ' s first doubts arose concerning the doctrine of the Trinity , and here he began to meditate his retirement from the church ; but

    his design was overruled for the present by the plausible consideration * which he Las so ingenuously stated in his Apology . In the year 1762 , the prospect was opened before him of high ecclesiastical

    preferment : the Earl of Northumberland was sent over , as Lord Lieutenant to I reland , and the place of chaplain to his lordship was offered by his consort to Mr . Lindsey , accompanied with a request that he and Mrs . L . would reside with

    them in the vice-regal palace till some valuable preferment should be obtainable . The acceptance of this offer would no doubt have led to an exalted station in tho church of Ireland : " Dr .

    Dodoson , who accepted the appointment which Mr . Lindsey declined , was soon advanced to the bishopric of O * sory , from whicU

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    *® Review . —Belsham ' s Memoirs of Lindsey .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/50/