Edward Nares (26 March 1762 – 23 July 1841) was an English historian and theologian, and general writer.

Edward Nares
Born(1762-03-26)26 March 1762
London, England
Died23 July 1841(1841-07-23) (aged 79)
Biddenden, Kent, England
Resting placeBiddenden parish church
NationalityBritish
EducationWestminster School
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
Occupation(s)Historian and theologian
TitleRegius Professor of Modern History
Term1813–1841
PredecessorHenry Beeke
SuccessorThomas Arnold
SpouseLady Charlotte Spencer

Life

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He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and in 1813, he became Regius Professor of Modern History. He was curate of St Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, and then rector of Biddenden from 1798,[1] of New Church, Romney from 1827.[2]

He was Bampton Lecturer in 1805.[3] Orthodox on the Biblical account, he was speculative on the issue of the plurality of worlds;[4] he wrote an 1803 pamphlet on the topic.[5]

He wrote for the Anti-Jacobin.[6] His novel Think's-I-to-Myself. A serio-ludicro, tragico-comico tale, written by Think's-I-to-Myself Who? (1811) caused a stir when it appeared and ran into eight editions by 1812.[7]

Family

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His father was Sir George Nares. He married Lady Charlotte Spencer, daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (an elopement).

Works

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References

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  • White, George Cecil A Versatile Professor: Reminiscences of the Rev. Edward Nares (1903)
  • Barber, Madeline J. A Man of Many Parts. Professor or Bishop? The Life of Edward Nares 1762-1841 (2009)

Notes

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  1. ^ "Historic Kent - Villages & Towns - B". Archived from the original on 8 February 2001. Retrieved 8 August 2013. Like all Wealden villages, Biddenden was practically cut off every winter and sometimes throughout the year when any prolonged rain would turn the roads into a morass of mud. As recently as 1807 the Rev Edward Nares recorded that even with four horses harnessed to his carriage he could travel no more than three miles from his rectory.
  2. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography.
  3. ^ Reverend Michael Roberts (15 December 2002). "Genesis and Geology Unearthed". Archived from the original on 2 October 2006. …Edward Nares could call on de Luc to support his nearly literal approach in his 1805 Bampton Lectures. However thirty years later Nares had joined the "Anti-geologists".
  4. ^ Cynthia Anne Miller Smith. "Shadows of Things to Come". www.romancatholic.org.
  5. ^ Michael J. Crowe (1986). The extraterrestrial life debate 1750–1900. The idea of a plurality of worlds from Kant to Lowell.
  6. ^ "Early Periodicals Collections, Lane library, AASU". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2006.
  7. ^ Lorna J. Clerk, ed. (1997). The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Athens, GA, and London: University of Georgia Press. p. 134n.
  8. ^ Reviewed (unkindly) by Thomas Macaulay. "Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 - Burleigh and His Times". Archived from the original on 1 October 2004.
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