an English clergyman and eminent Oriental scholar, was born at Stroud, in. Gloucestershire, in 1746. He was the son of a weaver, and was designed for his father’s calling, but having been sent to a charity-school at Gloucester, and having made rapid advancement, he was sent by a gentleman of fortune to Oxford, where he graduated at Wadham College about 1770; became a fellow of that college in 1774, was appointed to archbishop Laud’s professorship of Arabic in 1775; chosen in 1783 to preach the Bampton lecture for the following year, in the preparation of which he was assisted by Dr. Parr and Mr. Samuel Badcock; became prebendary of Gloucester in 1788; was appointed rector of Melton in 1790; became prebendary of Oxford in 1802; regius professor of Hebrew at Oxford the same year; and subsequently canon of Christ Church. He died at Oxford, May 22, 1814. He was the author of De Utilitate Linguae Arabicae in Studiis Theologicis Oratio (1776): Testamenti Novi Libri Historici et Epistolce tans Catholicae quam Pauline, Versio Syriaca Philoxeniana, etc. (1779-1803): A View of Christianity and Mohammedanism (Bampton Lectures) (London, 1784): and other works of great merit.<\/p>\n
White, Joseph (1), D.D an English clergyman and eminent Oriental scholar, was born at Stroud, in. Gloucestershire, in 1746. He was the son of a weaver, and was designed for his father’s calling, but having been sent to a charity-school at Gloucester, and having made rapid advancement, he was sent by a gentleman of fortune … Continue reading “White, Joseph (1), 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-94019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94019","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=94019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}