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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
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History And Biography.
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY .
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Historical Account of Students educated at the IVarrington Academy .
{ Continued from p . 268 . ) 1767 , 151 . George Willoughby , London . The 17 th and last Lord WiL loughby of Parham . The family had been ennobled by Henry
Vllltb . His father , a justice of the peace , and Colonel of the iTowtr Hamlets Militia , had succeeded in 1765 on the demise of his distant relation , Hugh , the 15 th Lord Willoughby , an inge . tiiousland learned nobleman , who in 17 ^ 2 be came Vice President of
the Royal-Society ^ on the revival of the Antiquarian Society in 1751 * was elected its first president * smd > on the establishment of the British Museum was
nominated one of its trustees . He was also President of the Equitable Assurance Office , and a Vice President of the Society for the Encouragement of Ans . Being one
of the last , if not the last , nobleman , who continued a nonconformist , in practice as well as principle , and by his residence in Lancashire ( at Shaw Place , near
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Rivington ) intimately acquainted with most of the leading dissenters of that county , * he was naturally looked up to as the patron of their new institution , and accordingly on its establishment in 1757 accepted the office of President of the Warrington Academy 7 which
* He was particularly fond of the society of several of the moie eminent neighbouring ministers ; from one of whom , the late Rev . Philip Holland , ofBolton , the present writer received the following characteristic anecdote : Being on a journey 9 and a Sunday intervening , on which day he always
made a point of attending public worship , he went to the nearest Dissenting meeting-house , and perceiving , from the preparations made , and the minister s discourse , that it was a communion day , he kept his place at die con . elusion of the ordinary service . After a little pause , the church-officers came to inform him , that they were going to celebrate the Lord ' s supper . 4 < Yes , ' * said his lordship , < c I perceive it ; and I mean to stay . " They informed him that it was not the custom of thai church to admit strangers to sit down with them , without a testimonial . "Oh **
said his lordship , u I beg your pardons 1 had quite misconceived the thing , I thought you had siid it was the Lord s supper that you were going to have ; but if it be any private supper of your ovm , 1 ha \ e no wish to Interfere •/ and immediately withdrew .
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THB MONTHLY REPOSITORY OP Theology and General Literature .
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No . Olll . JULY . [ Vol . IX .
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vol . ix . 3 d
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/1/
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