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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Fleming (search)
change in his theological views led to any alteration of it, we have now no means of ascertaining; but it appears that, after leaving Mr. Hardy, he was, for several years, engaged in some secular business at Nottingham, possibly his father's trade, till, in the year 1727, he removed to London. In the mean time, he had married the daughter of Mr. John Harris, of Harstaff, in Derbyshire, by whom he had a family of ten children, one only of whom survived him. In London he became intimate with Mr. Holt, who was many years afterwards mathematical tutor at Warrington. From this friend he received assistance and encouragement in his studies, and acquired further improvement in classical literature, as well as an acquaintance with the Hebrew language. Whether this was, as yet, with a view to his finally entering on the profession of a Christian minister, to which, it is said, he had an early inclination; or merely to assist him in acquiring a more accurate acquaintance with those branches o
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
mined to have no boarders, though much solicited,) and of enjoying some society suited to his highly cultivated taste. On his arrival, the establishment of the academy (consisting, in addition to Mr. Aikin, of Dr. Taylor, theological tutor, and Mr. Holt, mathematical tutor) was considered as complete, as far, at least, as the funds of the institution would admit. The new tutor immediately entered on the classical department, besides which, he had two classes in the French language, gave lectures on grammar, oratory, and criticism, and also took those on logic and history from Mr. Holt. His mode of lecturing on the Greek and Latin classics was highly interesting, and had a great effect in promoting among his pupils a taste for the critical study of those venerable remains of antiquity. A perfect master of the languages in which they were written, and familiarly acquainted with their contents, he contrived to put his young friends in possession of the necessary previous requisites