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acute scholar . At different times he contributed detached pieces upon similar subjects to the Monthly Magazine * After a gradual
decay of more than four years , his useful life was closed on the 25 th of May , 1814 5 the favourite emp loyment of his life ( the education ofyouth ) being the last subject he was capable of conversing upon .
Mr . Pickbourn was steadily attached to the Dissenting interest , of which he has given a munificent proof m the bequest of lOQOl . ( 3 per cent Cons . ) to the Presbyterian Fund .
His theological views were Uni * tarian , and he was , during the whole period of his long residence at Hackney , a regular worshipper at the Gravel-Pit Meeting House , in the burial-yard of which lie lies interred .
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Rev . T . Wintle , B . D . July 29 , At Brightwell , the Rev . Thos . Wintle , B . D . His parents were in trade at Gloucester , where he was born 28 th April ,
1737 * He was educated chiefly in his native city , and distinguished by his thirst after knowledge , and his diligent application to schooUexercises . Obtaining an
exhibition at Pembroke College , Oxford , he there became scholar , Fellow , and Tutor . In 1767 , Archbishop Seeker made him rector of Wittrisham , in Kent , and called him to be one of his
domestic chaplains . After the death ° f his Grace in the following year , he resided at Wittrisham , or on the small living of St . P * tei , , ' * h Wattingford ; until , in 1774 , r > hnquishing these preferments , hct was presented by the late Bishop « f Winchester to the rectorv of
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Brightwell , Berks . At Brightwell he lived constantly forty years , and at Brightvvell he died , leaving a widow , two sons , and one
granddaughter , lhat in early life Mr . Wintle was unremitting in the attainment of useful learning , and in the practice of religion and virtue , the honourable distinction
conferred on him by that eminent divine and excellent man Archbishop Seeker , gives ample proof . That in his more mature and later years he ceased not , by precept and example , to set forth the expediency and advantages of a religious and virtuous life , all who had communication with him can
testify . Not that the world at large has to learn what were his pursuits ; for , with a desire that his honest and pious labours might be productive of good beyond the small circle of his parish , he published , 1 st , € i An Improved Version of
Daniel attempted , with a Preliminary Dissertation , and Notes critical , historical , and explanatory . " 2 m " A Dissertation on the Vision contained in the
second chapter of Zechariah . " 3 . " Eight Sermons on the Expediency , Prediction , and Accomplishment , of the Christian Redemption , preached at the Bampton Lecture . " 4 . cc Christian Ethics , or Discourses on the Beatitudes . iw fe ^ t
» - * ' *» — »^ — ^ t ^ ^~ r ^> w »« k | ^ ^ s v ^ ••» w »¦ ¦ * * ' ^ mm ^ ^* wmr w —» W— ^™ ^^ " ¦ # A with some preliminary and subsequent Discourses , the whole designed to explain , recommend , or enforce , the Duties of the Christian life . " 5 . " A Letter to the
Lord Bishop of Worcester , occasioned by his Strictures on Archbishop Seeker and Bishop Lowth , in his Life of Bishop Warburton /* The two first of these publications will class Mr . Wintle with the most distinguished biblical scho-
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Obituary . —Rev . T < Wintle , B . 2 > . 637
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/49/
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