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BINGHAM, JOSEPH (1668-1723)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 948 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BINGHAM, See also:JOSEPH (1668-1723) , See also:English See also:scholar and divine, was See also:horn at See also:Wakefield in See also:Yorkshire in See also:September 1668. He was educated at University See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he was made See also:fellow in 1689 and See also:tutor in 1691. A See also:sermon preached by him from the university See also:pulpit, St See also:Mary's, on the meaning of the terms " See also:Person " and " Substance " in the Fathers, brought upon him a most unjust See also:accusation of See also:heresy. He was compelled to give up his fellowship and leave the university; but he was immediately presented by Dr See also:John See also:Radcliffe to the rectory of Headbournworthy, near See also:Winchester (1695). In this See also:country retirement he began his laborious and valuable See also:work entitled Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the See also:Christian See also:Church, the first See also:volume of which appeared in 1708 and the tenth and last in 1722. His See also:design, learnediy, exhaustively and impartially executed, was " to give such a methodical See also:account of the antiquities of the Christian Church as others have done of the See also:Greek and See also:Roman and Jewish antiquities, by reducing the See also:ancient customs, usages and practices of the church under certain proper heads, whereby the reader may take a view at once of any particular usage or See also:custom of Christians for four or five centuries." Notwithstanding his learning and merit, Bingham received nohigher preferment than that of Headbournworthy till 1712, when he was collated to the rectory of See also:Havant, near See also:Portsmouth, by See also:Sir See also:Jonathan Trelawney, See also:bishop of Winchester. Nearly all his little See also:property was lost in the See also:great See also:South See also:Sea Bubble of 1720. He died on the 17th of See also:August 1723.

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