Thomas Pownall Boultbee, LL.D. (1818–1884), was an English

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Life

Boultbee, the eldest son of Thomas Boultbee, for forty-seven years

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, was born on 7 Aug. 1818. He was also the nephew of John Boultbee the adventurer. He was sent to

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in 1833, which he left with an exhibition to

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. He took the degree of B.A. in 1841, as fifth wrangler. In March 1842 he was elected fellow of his college, and proceeded M.A. in 1844. He took orders immediately; and after holding one or two curacies, and taking pupils, he became curate to the Rev. Francis Close, of

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, afterwards dean of Carlisle. From 1852 to 1863 he was theological tutor and chaplain of

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. In 1863 he assumed the principalship of the newly instituted London College of Divinity, at first located in a private house at Kilburn, where the principal entered upon his task with a single student. Two years afterwards it was moved to St. John's Hall,

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, and the number of pupils rose to fifty or sixty. In 1884 the number of students in residence was sixty-eight. Boultbee took the degree of LL.D. in 1872, and in October 1883 received from the

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, Dr. John Jackson, the prebendal stall of Eadland in

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. Dr. Boultbee died at

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on 30 Jan. 1884, and was buried at

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, of which, his youngest son was vicar.

Works

Besides a few sermons and occasional papers, Dr. Boultbee published: * ''The Alleged Moral Difficulties of the Old Testament, a Lecture Delivered in Connection with the

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'', 28 June 1872; 8vo, London, 1872. * ''The Annual Address of the

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, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain'', 8vo, London, 1873.
''A Commentary on the Thirty-nine Articles, forming an Introduction to the Theology of the Church of England'', 8vo, London, 1871, and other editions.
* ''A History of the Church of England Pre-Reformation Period'', 8vo, London, 1879.

References

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