Rennell, Thomas (2)

Rennell, Thomas

(1), D.D., an English clergyman, was born in 1754, and was educated at Eton and at King’s College, Cambridge. He became curate of Barnack, and prebendary of Winchester (resigned 1797) rector of St. Magnus’s, London Bridge, in 1792; master of the Temple from 1797 to 1827; dean of Winchester in 1805; rector of Alton, Hants, in 1809; vicar of Barton Stacey, Hants, in 1814. He died in 1840. He published, single Sermons (Lond. 1793-98), and a volume of Discourses (ibid. 1801). Mr. Pitt styled him the Demosthenes of the pulpit. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliogr. s.v.

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Rennell, Thomas (2)

(2), D.D., a learned English divine, son of the above, was born at Winchester in 1787, and was educated at Eton and at King’s College, Cambridge. He became Christian advocate at Cambridge and vicar of Kensington in 1816; and master of St. Nicholas’s Hospital and prebendary of Salisbury in 1823. He died in 1824. Mr. Rennell was one of the editors of and contributors to the (Eton) Miniature and the British Critic, and a contributor to the Museum Criticum. He published, Palentes Morbi: Animadversions on the Unitarian Version of the New Test. (1811, 8vo): Remarks on Scepticism (1819, 12mo; 6th ed. 1824): Proofs of Inspiration, etc. (1822, 8vo): Sermons (3d ed. Lond. 1831, 8vo). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliogr. s.v.

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