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Lives of Dr. Edward Pocock, the Celebrated Orientalist, by Dr. Twells; of Dr. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, and of Dr. Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol, by Themselves; and of the Rev. Philip Skelton, by Mr. Bundy (1818)
zachary, pearce, sometimes, known, zachariah, september, 1690, june, 1774, english, bishop, bangor, bishop, rochester, controversialist, notable, early, critical, writer, defending, john, milton, attacking, richard, bentley, 1732, edition, paradise, lost, foll. Zachary Pearce sometimes known as Zachariah 8 September 1690 29 June 1774 was an English Bishop of Bangor and Bishop of Rochester He was a controversialist and a notable early critical writer defending John Milton 1 attacking Richard Bentley s 1732 edition of Paradise Lost the following year Right ReverendZachary PearceBishop of RochesterPortrait by Edward PennyInstalled1756Term ended1774PredecessorJoseph WilcocksSuccessorJohn ThomasOther post s Bishop of Bangor Dean of WestminsterPersonal detailsBorn8 September 1690Died29 June 1774NationalityEnglish BritishDenominationChurch of EnglandAlma materTrinity College CambridgeChristianity portalLife EditPearce was born the son of Thomas or John Pearce a distiller in 1690 in the parish of St Giles High Holborn He first attended Great Ealing School 2 and then Westminster School He graduated BA from Trinity College Cambridge in 1713 4 and MA in 1717 3 He was Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge 1716 1720 4 and chaplain to the Lord Chancellor Thomas Parker 1st Earl of Macclesfield Parker became his patron to whom Pearce dedicated an edition of the De oratore of Cicero He became rector of Stapleford Abbotts Essex 1719 1722 and St Batholemew Royal Exchange 1720 1724 He was vicar of St Martin in the Fields London in 1726 5 He was then Dean of Winchester in 1739 Bishop of Bangor in 1748 and Bishop of Rochester in 1756 In 1761 he turned down the position of bishop of London 4 He was Dean of Westminster 1756 1768 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1720 6 Towards the end of Isaac Newton s life Pearce assisted him on chronology 7 There is a monument to Pearce in the Church of St Peter and St Paul Bromley 8 He had married Mary daughter of Benjamin Adams a distiller of Holborn Works EditThe Miracles of Jesus Vindicated 1729 was written against Thomas Woolston A Reply to the Letter to Dr Waterland was against Conyers Middleton defending Daniel Waterland Pearce engaged in this controversy as a former student of William Wake 9 Other works were Cicero Dialogi tres de oratore 1716 Longinus De sublimitate commentarius 1724 Cicero De officiis libri tres 1745 He also published sermons he preached at the funeral of Sir Hans Sloane 10 References Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zachary Pearce Christopher Ricks Milton s Grand Style p 9 Hole Robert 2004 Pearce Zachary 1690 1774 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 ref odnb 21693 Retrieved 4 June 2008 Subscription or UK public library membership required Pearce Zachariah PR710Z A Cambridge Alumni Database University of Cambridge a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography St Martin in the Fields Trafalgar Square Westminster lovesguide com Retrieved on 2012 06 15 Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660 2007 London The Royal Society Archived from the original on 24 March 2010 Retrieved 16 July 2010 Academy Thomas Anson New Shugborough org uk Retrieved on 2012 06 15 Bromley British history ac uk 2003 06 22 Retrieved on 2012 06 15 David B Ruderman Connecting the Covenants Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth Century England University of Pennsylvania Press 2007 ISBN 0812240162 p 47 Chelsea part 2 of 3 British History Online British history ac uk 2003 06 22 Retrieved on 2012 06 15 Lives of Dr Edward Pocock the Celebrated Orientalist by Dr Twells of Dr Zachary Pearce Bishop of Rochester and of Dr Thomas Newton Bishop of Bristol by Themselves and of the Rev Philip Skelton by Mr Bundy 1818 Royal Society Biography dead link Church of England titlesPreceded byCharles Naylor Dean of Winchester1739 1748 Succeeded byThomas CheyneyPreceded byMatthew Hutton Bishop of Bangor1748 1756 Succeeded byJohn EgertonPreceded byJoseph Wilcocks Bishop of Rochester1756 1774 Succeeded byJohn ThomasDean of Westminster1756 1768 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Zachary Pearce amp oldid 1174514918, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
