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Gilbert Wakefield

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Gilbert Wakefield (22 November 1756, Nottingham – 9 September 1801, Hackney) was an English scholar and controversialist. [1]

26 relations: Alexandrian text-type, Bishop of Llandaff, Church of England, Dissenting academies, Dorchester, Dorset, French Revolution, Jesus College, Cambridge, John Towill Rutt, Joseph Johnson (publisher), King's Bench Prison, Kingston upon Thames, London Borough of Hackney, Nottingham, Pamphlet, Polemic, Rector (ecclesiastical), Revolution Controversy, Richard Watson (bishop of Llandaff), Scholarly method, St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham, Textus Receptus, The Age of Reason, Unitarianism, Warrington Academy, William Turner (biographer), Wrangler (University of Cambridge).

Alexandrian text-type

The Alexandrian text-type (also called Neutral or Egyptian), associated with Alexandria, is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual characters of biblical manuscripts.

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Bishop of Llandaff

The Bishop of Llandaff is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Dissenting academies

The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, those who did not conform to the Church of England.

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Dorchester, Dorset

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, England.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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John Towill Rutt

John Towill Rutt (4 April 1760 – 3 March 1841) was an English political activist, social reformer and nonconformist man of letters.

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Joseph Johnson (publisher)

Joseph Johnson (15 November 1738 – 20 December 1809) was an influential 18th-century London bookseller and publisher.

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King's Bench Prison

The King's Bench Prison was a prison in Southwark, south London, England, from medieval times until it closed in 1880.

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Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames, also known as Kingston, is an area in the southwest of Greater London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.

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London Borough of Hackney

The London Borough of Hackney is a London Borough in Inner London, United Kingdom.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Pamphlet

A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding).

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Polemic

A polemic is contentious rhetoric that is intended to support a specific position by aggressive claims and undermining of the opposing position.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Revolution Controversy

The Revolution Controversy was a British debate over the French Revolution, lasting from 1789 through 1795.

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Richard Watson (bishop of Llandaff)

Richard Watson (1737–1816) was an Anglican bishop and academic, who served as the Bishop of Llandaff from 1782 to 1816.

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Scholarly method

The scholarly method or scholarship is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public.

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St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham

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Textus Receptus

Textus Receptus (Latin: "received text") is the name given to the succession of printed Greek texts of the New Testament.

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The Age of Reason

The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of Deism.

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Unitarianism

Unitarianism (from Latin unitas "unity, oneness", from unus "one") is historically a Christian theological movement named for its belief that the God in Christianity is one entity, as opposed to the Trinity (tri- from Latin tres "three") which defines God as three persons in one being; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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Warrington Academy

Warrington Academy, active as a teaching establishment from 1756 to 1782, was a prominent dissenting academy, that is, a school or college set up by those who dissented from the established Church of England.

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William Turner (biographer)

William Turner (13 January 1788 - 30 December 1853) was an English Unitarian minister, known as a biographer.

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Wrangler (University of Cambridge)

At the University of Cambridge in England, a "Wrangler" is a student who gains first-class honours in the third year of the University's undergraduate degree in mathematics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Wakefield

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