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...Jackson, Joseph This is probably the Joseph Jackson who was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1664 and MA in 1667. He was rector of Doynton, Gloucestershire, from 1678 to 1720. Jackson was the author of A Discourse...

...Locke, JohnPriestley, Joseph Fisher, Joseph Joseph Fisher was vicar of Drax in Yorkshire, information disclosed on the title-page of his Review of the Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity illustrated by Dr. Priestley (1779). The work...

...Parkhurst, John Wesley, John Hutchinson, John John Parkhurst was born in Northamptonshire in June 1728 and died in Epsom on 21 February 1797. He was educated at Rugby and Clare Hall, Cambridge (BA, 1748; MA, 1752), of which he became...

... of John Locke from the criticisms of Hamilton Hamilton, William , and especially Whately , in Thought and Language (1855), dedicated to Faraday, Michael Michael Faraday , specifically arguing that Locke’s philosophy did not lead to a system...

... graduated MA from Edinburgh University in 1735, having taken classes in Humanity between 1731 and 1733 and in Logic in 1734. From 1742 to 1744 he was deputy to Sir John Pringle , Professor of Moral Philosophy. After Pringle’s resignation Cleghorn...

... The History of the College of Corpus Christi … in the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1753), pp. 327–8; 2nd edn, by John Lamb (Cambridge, 1831), pp. 272–3, 443, citing the obituary notice in the General Evening Post , 20 September 1740....

...Curteis, Thomas Thomas Curteis (or Curtis) came from a family of the Kent gentry which had turned to dissent. (Venn suggests that he may be the Thomas Curtis from Derbyshire who was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1676...

...Seddon, John John Seddon was born at Hereford on 8 December 1725 and died at Warrington, Lancashire on 23 January 1770. He was the son of Peter Seddon, a Presbyterian minister. He was educated at the Kendal Academy under Caleb Rotheram...

... to the Established Church in the following year. From 1760 until his death he was rector of Burgh.However, he kept up his dissenting links and was part of the literary circle surrounding John Aikin , classical tutor at the Warrington Academy, which had...

...Towers, John John Towers was born in Lancashire, the son of a farmer. He was admitted as a sizar to Trinity College, Dublin in 1705, graduating BA in 1709 and MA in 1712 (BD and DD, 1743). He was a prebendary of St Patrick’s Cathedral,...