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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 10 0 Browse Search
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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Dissenting Academics. (search)
well known in the succeeding age as decided Arians, we seem authorized to infer that he had himself a leaning towards the same principles. Little is known (at least we have not been able to meet with any record) of his early history. In 1719 he quitted Whitehaven to settle at Bolton in Lancashire, where he remained till his death, in 1733. It is not known that any production of his found its way before the public. His son, Mr. Thomas Dixon, was educated under the care of Dr. Rotheram, at Kendal, and in 1751 settled at Bolton, on the decease of his father's successor, Mr. Buck. Here he died in 1754, at the early age of thirty-three; non annis, sed laude plenus, according to the inscription on his monument in Bolton Chapel. Some years after his death an excellent piece of Scripture criticism was published from his papers, entitled The Sovereignty of the Divine Administrations vindicated; or a rational Account (without the intervention of the Devil or of Demons) of our blessed Savio
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
of Dr. Dixon, at Whitehaven. In the year 1716, he accepted an invitation from the Protestant dissenting congregation at Kendal, and became their stated pastor; a station in which he remained through life. Nothing is recorded of him till the year 1acher both of theoretical and of practical mathematics. His eminence in this particular department caused the academy at Kendal to be eagerly resorted to, not only by students for the ministry, but by many who were afterwards to fill various stationam, where a mural monument bears the following inscription to his memory:— To the Memory of Caleb Rotheram, late of Kendal, D. D. Who successfully united The force of Genius and Industry In the Cause of Religion, Truth, and Liberty.lowed his father's profession, and, after a short interval, succeeded him as minister of the Presbyterian congregation at Kendal. But the academy fell with its founder, on whose personal exertions, reputation, and influence, it almost entirely depen