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    % Memoir of the late Rev . To -J& Broadbentp J £ Ao

    though his virtues werte many * He was faorn at Wairitigtpn in the year 1793 ? a ^ d had the misfortune to lose an excellent mother when he was too young to be sensible of her Ioss » He received the first rudiments of a liberal

    education under his worthy father 3 and afterwards he passed sometime under the tuition of a learned clergyman at Manchester , who was equally distinguished for his attainments in classical literature and for his skill in

    communicating instruction . When he had finished Ms school education , conformably to the express desire of his maternal grandfather , who had conducted , with great ability and

    success , a considerable manufactory in the vicinity of Sheffield , he , for a short time , made trial of a sectilar employment ; but he soon found that it did not suit him . He had contracted a

    taste for literature , and an earnest desire of being useful in the Christian ministry in consequence of . which , with- the fall concurrence of his pious father , who highly approved though

    lie would not influence his choice , he bade adieu to secular business , and " entered as a student at the university of Glasgow . Here he passed through the routine of academical studies with

    ia degree of regularity , assiduity and success , whfch secured the marked approbation of the professors , while his amiable manners and exemplary Virtues won the esteem and affection

    of his associates . He Was graced with i&aferjr aic&d&hidal prizes , and particularly on account of his proficiency in Greet literature , and he graduated with distinguished credit . * 1

    . Whenlie left the university he resided for sdnbie time at home , where he pursued his theological studies under his father ' s eye . And three years ago he came up to Loiidon in expectation of deriving peculiar advantage in the

    line of'Iris profession , from the Assistance and advice of frrehds , from access to libraries , aricl from the opportunities he wc ^ uld enj oy of attending tlte public services 6 f . eimneht and approved ministers of different denominations .

    * Thell ^^ T . B . Broadbent bom March , 17 , \ . &i $$ : he entered at Glasgow November < j | $ i& $ ii& topic bis Master ' s . degree , April 1913 ^ having r «? creiyed a prize in every Gown class , and in the CJreek glass , fth © &i % L

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    During ! his re ^ feiirce in Ldiadoej , which , continued for tfte-gtealier |> art of the last three winters , he preached for some time with great acceptance to a highly respectable congregation at Westminster , which was tfeen

    vacant j and afterwards occasionally 10 other places . For two years he assisted in the classical education of some young men who were candidates for the Christian ministry - aiid of thii department he performed the 'duties

    with such diligence , skill and success ^ as to secure not only the improveinent but the affection and gratitude oif his pupils , together with the high / approbation of his learned colleagues , and the managers and supporters of the Institution . * At the same time he

    was far from neglecting the main objects of his residence in Lbridotio He read and thought and studied , With great application . Nor ou ^ ht ft to M concealed , that the last edition of the Improved Version of the New

    iTesiainent is greatly indebted for its correctness to the pains which were be stowed upon it by this teamed akid meritorious youog mail , in collating its various readings with those of thfe second edition of Griesbach * s Gireek

    Testament , and reducing the text to as exact a conformity as Height be with the text of that celebrated scholar , f While he resided in Loriddn hh formed a very extensive acquaintance with persons of different persnas ? ons

    , * Tbe Unitarian Academy , under th ^ e able direction of the Rev . Robert . Aspfcmct , assisted at that time by the late ingenioufe and ! Kev ^ . Jeremuih Joyce . f ft would beungfi-ateful not to mentiok that the principal object of Mr . T . Bros ^ dbent ' s Tisit to Loiidoir , last Wttiittfie , was t © assist the writer of this discotirse in

    transcribing * , from short haiid , his Coirimentary on PauFs Epistles , with si view to future publication , if that should be judged expedient . It may gratify the curiosity of some worthy friends wW a ;* e pleased to Inferest themselves in the subject , to be iraformed ^ that Mr . T . Broadbent tra ^ Cri b / Efd ffie tW » Epistles to tiie Gorihthians , tTie first EirtSiTe

    to Timothy , and the Ejtfstfe to Titiis . All the Epistles written froin Rdme , inicltfdiag * that to the Hebrews , Thave fttten in ' readiness for tHe press some years agQ . Tho Epislle to the Jtomamv is . still m hand > and the autnor is proceedings witli 1 ^ amidst nu < ° tnerous avocations ^ as &t iisb ; fa wlct «

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/2/