Thomas Hutchinson (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was an English clergyman and
classical scholar
A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researc ...
.
Life
The son of Peter Hutchinson of
Cornforth
Cornforth is a village in County Durham, England. It is adjacent to the village of West Cornforth, situated a short distance to the north-east of Ferryhill.
Before the middle part of the Victorian era, when coal mining was at its height in Cou ...
, in the parish of
Bishop Middleham
Bishop Middleham is a village in County Durham, in England. The population of the parish as taken at the 2011 census was 1,275 It is close to Sedgefield.
History
Bishop Middleham lies in a dry valley about 9 miles (14 km) south-east of ...
,
Sedgefield
Sedgefield is a market town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It had a population of 5,211 as at the 2011 census. It has the only operating racecourse in County Durham.
History Roman
A Roman 'ladder settlement' was discovered by C ...
,
County Durham, he was baptised there on 17 May 1698. He matriculated at
Lincoln College, Oxford, on 28 March 1715, and graduated B.A. 1718, M.A. 1721, B.D. (from
Hart Hall
Hertford College ( ), previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main ga ...
) 1733, and D.D. 1738. In 1731 he was appointed rector of
Lyndon, Rutland
Lyndon is a small village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish was 80 at the 2001 census (including Pilton), increasing to 124 at the 2011 census.
The village's name means 'hill of flax' o ...
, having acquired a reputation as a scholar by the publication of an edition of
Xenophon
Xenophon of Athens (; grc, Ξενοφῶν ; – probably 355 or 354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian, born in Athens. At the age of 30, Xenophon was elected commander of one of the biggest Greek mercenary armies o ...
's ''
Cyropaedia
The ''Cyropaedia'', sometimes spelled ''Cyropedia'', is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. It was written around 370 BC by Xenophon, the Athenian-born soldier, historian, and student of Soc ...
'' (1727).
Thomas Herring
Thomas Herring (169323 March 1757) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1747 to 1757.
Early life and education
He was the son of John Herring, rector of Walsoken in Norfolk, who had previously been vicar of Foxton, near Cambridge, and his wife, ...
,
Archbishop of Canterbury, presented him to the vicarage of
Horsham,
Sussex, in 1748, and he held also the rectory of
Cocking in the same county, and a prebendal stall in
Chichester Cathedral
Chichester Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Chichester. It is located in Chichester, in West Sussex, England. It was founded as a cathedral in 1075, when the seat of ...
. Dying at Horsham, he was buried there on 7 February 1769.
Works
He published several sermons and an essay on
demoniacal possession, which attracted considerable notice.
* Xenophon's Cyropaedia - 1727
*
Xenophon's Anabasis - 1735
* The Usual Interpretation of δαίμονες and δαιμονία
aimones and Daimonia- 1738.
References
*
;Attribution
External links
Clerical careerBiography on Sussex People website
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18th-century English Anglican priests
English classical scholars
1698 births
1769 deaths
People from Bishop Middleham