Thomas Burgess (bishop)

Thomas Burgess (* 1756 in Odiham, Hampshire, † February 19, 1837 ) was an English author and philosopher.

Thomas Burgess was born 1756 in Odiham, Hampshire and attended after school in Winchester Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Even before graduation, he worked on the remake of John Burton Pentalogia. In 1781 he brought out an annotated edition of Richard Dawess Miscellaneci Critica, which also appeared in Leipzig in 1800. In 1783 he became a Fellow of his college, and in 1785 he was appointed chaplain to Shute Barrington, Bishop of Salisbury. Through its influence, he received a Pfründersitz, a position he held until 1803.

In 1788 he published Considerations on the Abolition of Slavery ( Considerations on the abolition of slavery ), in which he stood up for the principle of graduated emancipation. In 1791 he accompanied Barrington to Durham, where he joined the evangelizing work of the poorer classes championed. In 1803 him the free ministry of the Bishop of St Davids has been assigned, he held the next twenty years with great success. He founded in the Diocese of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ( Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge) and the St David's College (now the University of Wales Lampeter ), which he endows generous, and he bequeathed his large library after his death.

In 1820 he became the first president of the newly founded Royal Society of Literature (Royal Society for Literature ), three years later he took over the see of Salisbury, where he remained for twelve years, and with untiring diligence headed to his charitable sense. In St Davids, as well as in Salisbury, he founded the Church Union Society ( Unification Church ) to support frail and ailing priest. He sat up sharply against Unitarianism and Catholic emancipation.

A list of its very extensive work can be found in his biography of JS Harford (second edition 1841). In addition to the works already mentioned, I refer to Essay on the Study of Antiquities, The First Principles of Christian Knowledge; Reflections on the Controversial Writings of Dr. Priestley, Emendationes in Suidam et Hesychium et alios Lexicographos Graecos; The Bible, and nothing but the Bible, the religion of the Church of England.