a clergyman of the Church of England, was born at Rainham, in Norfolk, June 8,1759. He was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge; ordained deacon in 1785, and priest the following year; became perpetual curate of Holme, Lancashire, in 1797; vicar of Whalley in 1809.; held for some time the vicarage of Heysham; became vicar of Blackburn in 1818, and remained there until his death, which occurred Dec. 18, 1821. He published A History of the Original Parish of Whalley and Honor of Clitheroe, in the Counties of Lancaster and York. (1801): History of the Deanery of Craven (1805): De Motu per Britanniam Civico Annis 1745 et 1746 (1809): The Life and Original Correspondence of Sir George Radcliffe (1810): an edition of The Vision of Piers Plowman (eod.): a new edition of Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodinensis; or, The Topography (of Leeds’,(1816): Loidis and Aimete; or, An Attempt to Illustrate the Districts Described in these Words by Bede (1816): besides single sermons and other works.<\/p>\n
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, LL.D a clergyman of the Church of England, was born at Rainham, in Norfolk, June 8,1759. He was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge; ordained deacon in 1785, and priest the following year; became perpetual curate of Holme, Lancashire, in 1797; vicar of Whalley in 1809.; held for some time the vicarage … Continue reading “Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, LL.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-93990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93990","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=93990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}