Fonds CCPP/WHI - William Whiston pamphlets

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CCPP/WHI

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William Whiston pamphlets

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  • 1711-1721 (Creation)

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Whiston, William (1667-1752), Lucasian Professor and Fellow of Clare College
(9 December 1667 - 22 August 1752)

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Born on 9 December 1667, the son of Josiah, Rector of Norton-juxta-Twycross, Leicestershire
School - Tamworth
Admitted as a sizar at Clare on 30 June 1686
Matriculated - 1687
B.A. 1689/90
M.A. 1693
Fellow, 1691

Sept 1693 - Ordained deacon (Lichfield)
Chaplain to Bishop Moore, of Norwich
1697-98 - Rector of Drayton, Norfolk
1698-1703 - Vicar of Lowestoft and Kessingland, Suffolk

1702-1710 - Succeeded Newton as Lucasian Professor and one of the first to popularise the Newtonian theories
1707 - Boyle Lecturer

30 Oct 1710 - Banished from the University for an essay which expounded Arian doctrines
Went to London and lectured there and at Bristol, Bath, and Tunbridge Wells on various subjects, comprising meteors, eclipses, and earthquakes, connecting them more or less with the fulfilment of biblical prophecies

Advocated a number of theories of which the most famous was that the Tartars were the lost tribes of XISR

Married Ruth, daughter of Revd George Antrobus, Master of Tamworth School in 1699

Died on 22 August 1752, aged 84

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Clare College Archives, University of Cambridge

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