an English prelate, son of the sheriff of Devonshire (under Henry II), was preferred bishop of Exeter, 1224, and died in 1244. He founded a dean and twenty-four prebendaries in connection with his see. He was a great courtier and was employed in embassies, as when he was sent to conduct Isabel, sister to Henry III, to be married to Frederic, the emperor, whom he afterwards attended to the Holy Land. See Fuller, Worthies of England (ed. Nuttall), 1:404.<\/p>\n
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in 1827. He was converted in 1847; soon after received license to preach; studied at Mount Morris Seminary, Illinois; in 1853 entered the Rock River Conference, and in its active ranks labored to the close of his life, December 27, 1855. Mr. Brewer was a young man of great promise. As a preacher he excelled, as a Christian he was exemplary. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1856, page 143.<\/p>\n
Brewer, William (1) an English prelate, son of the sheriff of Devonshire (under Henry II), was preferred bishop of Exeter, 1224, and died in 1244. He founded a dean and twenty-four prebendaries in connection with his see. He was a great courtier and was employed in embassies, as when he was sent to conduct Isabel, … Continue reading “Brewer, William (2)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}