an English divine, was born in 1721, and died May 28, 1795. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge; took orders, and in 1748 was made vicar of Barkby, near Leicester; assistant preacher of Lincoln’s Inn in 1753; succeeded his father as vicar of Sileby in 1765; became rector of Sawtry- all-Saints, Huntingdonshire, in 1766; a prebend in the collegiate church in Southwell in 1768: and in 1788 vicar-general of Southwell Church. Besides works on other subjects, he wrote Cursory Animadversions upon the Middletonian Controversy in general (1752): Remarks upon Dr. Chapman’s Charge (1752) A Letter to Rev. T. Fothergill (1753): Sketch of Lord Bolingbroke’s Philosophy (1785, 8vo): The Use of Reason asserted in Matters of Religion (1755, 8vo; and a defense of the same, in 1756, 8vo): Discourse on the Being of God, against Atheists, in two Sermons (being the only ones of his twenty-four Boyle sermons which he published, 1763, 4to). Dr. Heathcote wrote several articles for the first edition of the General Biographical Dictionary, and assisted Nichols in editing a new edition of the same, published in 1784, 12 vols. 8vo. Alibone, Dict. of Authors, 1, 814; Rose, New Genesis Biog. Dict. 8:241; Gentleman’s Magazine, 65, 66, 71. (J. W. M.) <\/p>\n
Heathcote, Ralph, D.D an English divine, was born in 1721, and died May 28, 1795. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge; took orders, and in 1748 was made vicar of Barkby, near Leicester; assistant preacher of Lincoln’s Inn in 1753; succeeded his father as vicar of Sileby in 1765; became rector of Sawtry- all-Saints, … Continue reading “Heathcote, Ralph, D.D”<\/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-53641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53641","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=53641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}