The Rev. Lucius Doolittle,

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priest; born 23 May 1800, died 18 May 1862. After receiving an

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and honorary

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from the

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, Doolittle founded

Bishop's College School Bishop's College School or BCS is an English-language non-profit independent boarding prep school in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada for students in Grades 7 to 12.Thomson, Ashley; Lafortune, Sylvie (1999). Handbook of Canadian Boarding Schools. To ...

in 1836 (as Lennoxville Classical School with Cambridge-Graduate Edward Chapman) and co-founded

Bishop's University Bishop's University (french: Université Bishop's) is a small English-language Liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The founder of the institution was the Anglican Diocese of Quebe ...

in 1843 in

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. He also acted as the

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, the third-largest city in Quebec and the borough of

Lennoxville Lennoxville is an ''arrondissement'', or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Lennoxville is located at the confluence of the St. Francis and Massawippi Rivers approximately five kilometres south of downtown Sherbrooke. Lennoxvi ...

.Collections Online: British Museum BCS Medal. (n.d.). Retrieved September 30, 2020, from https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG252404

is currently the fifth-oldest functioning private school in

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19th-century Canadian Anglican priests 19th-century Canadian philanthropists School founders 1800 births 1862 deaths {{US-bio-stub