Moyer Lectures

The Moyer Lectures were an annual series of theological lectures delivered in London from 1719 to 1774, designed to support the orthodox interpretation of the Christian Trinity.

The initial lecturer was Daniel Waterland, who had much to do with the selection of lecturers in the early years. The series was endowed by the 1723 will of Rebecca Moyer, widow of the merchant Sir Samuel Moyer.^[1]

The final lecture series was given by Thomas Morell.^[2] At this point Lady Moyer's heirs exercised their option to discontinue the series.^[3]

Lecturers

• 1719 Daniel Waterland
• 1720 James Knight
• 1721 William Lupton
• 1722 Edmund Chishull
• 1723 William Berriman
• 1724 Thomas Bishop
• 1725 Andrew Trebeck
• 1726 Alexander Innis
• 1727 Philip Gretton
• 1728 Henry Felton
• 1729 Joseph Trapp
• 1730 John Brown
• 1731 John Hay
• 1732 Jeremiah Seed
• 1733 Charles Wheatly
• 1734 Theodore Waterland
• 1735 Edward Underhill
• 1736 Valentine Haywood
• 1737 John Berriman
• 1738 Leonard Twells
• 1739 Arthur Bedford
• 1740 Gloster Ridley^[4]
• 1754 William Dodd
• 1757 William Clements^[5]
• 1764 Benjamin Dawson
• Peter Newcome, at the end of the series.
• 1773 Thomas Morell

References

• Queens' College (University of Cambridge). Library; Thomas Hartwell Horne (1827). A catalogue of the library of the College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard: commonly called Queen's college, in the University of Cambridge. Printed for the Society of Queen's college by S. and R. Bentley. pp. 305–6. Retrieved 18 March 2012.

Notes

1. James E. Force; Sarah Hutton (2004). Newton and Newtonianism: new studies. Springer. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-4020-1969-2. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
2. Samuel Halkett; John Laing (1926). Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature. Ardent Media. p. 190. GGKEY:RE4AYA7TY6Y. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
3. Richard Stuteley Cobbett, Memorials of Twickenham: parochial and topographical (1872), p. 116; archive.org.
4. Lecturers from 1719 to 1740: John Berriman (1741). Theos ephanerōthē en sarki (romanized form) or A critical dissertation upon 1 Tim. iii. 16: wherein rules are laid down to distinguish in various readings which is genuine : an account is given of above a hundred Greek manuscripts of St. Paul's Epistles (many of them not heretofore collated) : the writings of the Greek and Latin Fathers and the ancient versions are examin'd and the common reading of that text, God was manifest in the flesh, is prov'd to be the true one : being the substance of eight sermons preach'd at the Lady Moyer's lecture in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, in the years 1737 and 1738. Printed for W. Innys ... and J. Nourse. pp. 352–. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
5. William Clements (1797). Eight sermons preached (as Lady Moyer's lectures) in the cathedral church of St. Paul, London, in the year 1757: to which is added, a Latin oration, spoken in the hall, at Magdalen College, Oxford, on the Founder's Day, July 22, 1723. Printed for F. and C. Rivington. Retrieved 18 March 2012.