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Memoir of the late Right Reverend £ Jhrm Richard Watson , JBiskop of Llandaffi . ( . From c < The Annual Biography and Obituary , for the Yeav 1817 . " ) THI S celebrated Prelate possessed many claims to public attention , as a theologian , a chemist , an agriculturist and a man of letters . Tt would
be unpardonable , therefore , to allow such a name to sink for a moment into oblivion ' , or even to permit his memory to remain unhallowed with the just meed of praise .
rRichatfd Watsorr , amative of Westinoreland , was" borli at Eversham , about fhre mites from Kendal , both situate hi tfoat county , in the year 1737 V His father , a clergyman , who possessed frtit a , very trifling prefermenkr etaioyed for man y years the
Mastership of the Free Grammar School in Kendal , where thesoja was brought up . That his education was carefully attended to , and that he was not-only early , but thoroughly initiated iarrfhe elements of human learning-, appears probable ; his knowledge , indeed , seems to have been all that he carried
with him to Cambridge , except a very scanty stock of money , the most persevering economy , and a habit of application that defied imitation , and ataftost belief . He was admitted of Trinity College about the year 1755 \ anti ^ fe trite bltte Worsted stock ings and e * ars * mcrttled coat , both of which d&Ubtless evinced themselves of
home-&phu ^ manufacture , together with a nd # th € & * ii or pfH ^ vincialacieeot , are still commemorated by tradition in the annals of that celebrated institution Not ought » udb trifles to be o ?
er-Jobfced m thi * plkce : fdr whew it 13 veoolfegted , that hfo atiiihpeachabie morals , rapid progress and uniform good oouduct , either served to overcome or to obliterate the prejudices
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arising from these petty obstacles , the very mention of them conveys an appropriate lesson to the raw , young and uninformed Tyro . Mr- Watson was twenty-two years old when he took his first degree , having * obtained that of B . A . jn 1759 j he proceeded A . M . in 1762 *
when be stood high among the Wranglers ; and finally crcfwued his academical promotions as D . D . in 1791 . The Doctor appears at an early period to have obtained the respect of his own college , which could not be long unconscious of his worth ; and to this was added the esteem of the
whole University , in consequence of an incident which might have proved prejudicial to ^ a person les s discreet . The late Duke of Grafton , who was then their Chancellor , having made an improper recommendation of a candidate for a vacant office , he gave
a spirited opposition to the appointment y but took care at the same time to miogle his objections with so much suavity of manner , as actually to obtain the friendship of the nobleman in question . Indeed , at an early period , he appears to have imbibed a
due knowledge of the world and its affairs : for although he never excelled in mathematics , a study , then , as now deemed so essential at Trinity College ; yet he soon obtained precedency of those who were deeply versed in all
its most abstruse branches . Thus Postlethway te , one of his ablest oppor nents aa a Wrangler , could demonstrate himself fit only for a small rectory in the icpuntry * while Watson was soon enabled to become his Diocesan I
A . fellowship obtained s ome time before , afforded something like present independence , wSiile ; a ' college tutorship led to future honours and emoluments . The present Jkord Carysfort was o&e of his early pupils ; and to ftltoth&r , the late Mr . . Luther , after-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/1/
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