Robert Poole Finch (1724-1803) was an English divine.
LifeEdit
Finch was the son of the Rev. Richard Finch. He was born at Greenwich 3 March 1723–4, entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1736, and was admitted a member of Peterhouse, Cambridge, whence he graduated B.A. in 1743, M.A. in 1747 and D.D. in 1772.[1] He was ordained as a deacon in 1744,[2] and appointed a curate at Greenwich in 1748.[3] On becoming a priest he was chosen to be chaplain of Guy's Hospital, a position he held for 37 years. In 1755 he was appointed to the lectureship of St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, which he continued to hold to the time of his death.[2]
He was a preacher of some eminence. He published numerous sermons, and, in 1788, a treatise entitled Considerations upon the Use and Abuse of Oaths judicially taken, which passed through many editions and became a standard work among the publications of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.[1] In it he insisted that oaths should be administered with solemnity, condemned common swearing, and advocated the death sentence for the crime of perjury.[4]
^"Divinity". The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. 69: 355. 1790.
^Allen, William Osborne Bird; McClure, Edmund (1970) [reprinted from the 1898 edition]. Two Hundred Years: the history of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1698-1898. New York: Lenox Hill. p. 132. ISBN978-0-8337-0044-5.
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