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Memoir of the late Rev . Hugh IVorthingtofim fWe have already , through the prompt kindness of an able and much respected correspondent , given ' p . 545—550 ) an Obituary of Mr . Worthington , but we
are tempted , by our respect for his memory to extract from another work , [ The Universal Magazine ] the following Memoir , which , as the signature will inform many of our readers , is from the pen oft he Rev * Jeremiah Joyce . Ed , ]
The Rev . Hugh Worthing . ton , son of a gentleman of the same name , * was born at
Leices-• The Rev . Hugh Vorthington , A . M . died October 29 , 1 797 , at the age of 66 , having been pastor of a congregation of dissenters at Leicester , nearly sixty years . This gentleman was born at Balshawoutwood , near Stockport , Cheshire . He was educated by Mr . ( afterwards Dr , ) Eaton , of that place , who , some time after this , removed to Nottingham . In 1734 he went lo Glasgow , where he took his degree of M . A . He settled as dissenting minister first at Leeke , in
Staffordshire ; thence , in 1738 , he removed to London , was chosen librarian to Dr . Williams ' s Trust , in Red cross Strtet , and pastor to the society at Newington Green ; and in J 74 J , or 2 , he was in an mously appointed to succeed the Rev . Mr Watson , at Leicester . He was author of a Funeral Discourse for the
Kev . Mr . Daw son , of Hinckley : Three Charges deJLvered at the Ordination of young Atinisters , of which one was at © alters' Hall , in 1782 : an Address to bis Countrymen , during the > even Years ' War ^ and a volume of Sermons on practical Su jects . —( Sec Protestant dissenters * Magazine , voU iv . for a Memoir of thin gentleman . )
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ter , on the 21 st of June , 1752 , old style ; or , according to the new mode of reckoning , which commenced in the following September , on the 2 d of July .-f- He received the elements of
education at home , entirely under the instruction of his father , and was distinguished , from a very early period , by the quickness of his parts , and the strength of his
memory . At the age of sixteen , when he had * by the fostering care of an indulgent but vigilant parent , attained to a considerable knowledge of the classics and the Hebrew language , and a } so of the
f The Gregorian , or new style , was invented by Pope Gregory XIII . The difference between the old and new style is this : tjie former is calculated on the supposition that the length o £ the year is 365 days , 6 hours ; but the
latter is reckoned according to the true length of the year , which is only 365 days , 5 hours , 49 minutes . In the year of Christ , 200 , there was no difference of styles ; but , in 1580 , the difference was Jo days , hence Pope Gregory or * dered that , in all Catholic countries ,
these days should he taken cut of the ? calendar , and that , for insiance , the 1 st of January should be calkd tV c 1 l th , and so on . This alteration did n < t obtain in England till l ? 52 , when the
difference \* as 11 days ; and , by Act of Pariamcnt , it was" ordained th&t the mode of * reckoning should be so far altered , that the ad or * September should be called the 14 th ; of course the 21 st of J uae would be reck < yac 4 th « sd of Jcrif *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/1/
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