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KENNETT, WHITE (1660–1728)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 732 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KENNETT, See also:WHITE (1660–1728) , See also:English See also:bishop and See also:antiquary, was See also:born at See also:Dover in See also:August 166o. He was educated at See also:Westminster school and at St See also:Edmund's See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, where, while an undergraduate, he published several See also:translations of Latin See also:works, including See also:Erasmus In Praise of Folly. In 1685 he became See also:vicar of Ambrosden, See also:Oxfordshire. A few years after-wards he returned to Oxford as See also:tutor and See also:vice-See also:principal of St Edmund's Hall, where he gave considerable impetus to the study of antiquities. See also:George See also:Hickes gave him lessons in Old English. In 1695 he published Parochial Antiquities. In 1700 he became See also:rector of St Botolph's, Aldgate, See also:London, and in 1701 See also:archdeacon of See also:Huntingdon. For a eulogistic See also:sermon on the first See also:duke of See also:Devonshire he was in 1707 recommended to the deanery of See also:Peterborough. He afterwards joined the See also:Low See also:Church party, strenuously opposed the Sacheverel See also:movement, and in the Bangorian controversy supported with See also:great zeal and consider-able bitterness the See also:side of Bishop See also:Hoadly. His intimacy with See also:Charles Trimnell, bishop of See also:Norwich, who was high in favour with the See also:king, secured for him in 1718 the bishopric of See also:Peter-See also:borough. He died at Westminster in See also:December 1728. Kennett published in 1698 an edition of See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Spelman's See also:History of See also:Sacrilege, and he was the author of fifty-seven printed works, chiefly tracts and sermons.

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volume (Charles I: See also:Anne) of the composite Compleat History of See also:England (1706), and a more detailed and valuable See also:Register and See also:Chronicle of the Restoration. He was much interested in the Society for the See also:Propagation of the See also:Gospel. The See also:Life of Bishop White Kennett, by the Rev. See also:William See also:Newton (See also:anonymous), appeared in 1730. See also See also:Nichols's See also:Literary Anecdotes, and I. Disraeli's Calamities of Authors.

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