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LINGARD, JOHN (1771-1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 728 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LINGARD, See also:JOHN (1771-1851) , See also:English historian, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:February 1771 at See also:Winchester, where his See also:father, of an See also:ancient See also:Lincolnshire See also:peasant stock, had established himself as a See also:carpenter. The boy's talents attracted See also:attention, and in 1782 he was sent to the English See also:college at See also:Douai, where he continued until shortly after the See also:declaration of See also:war by See also:England (1793). He then lived as See also:tutor in the See also:family of See also:Lord Stourton, but in See also:October 1794 he settled along with seven other former members of the old Douai college at Crook See also:Hall near See also:Durham, where on the completion of his theological course he became See also:vice-See also:president of the reorganized See also:seminary. In 1795 he was ordained See also:priest, and soon afterwards undertook the See also:charge of the chairs of natural and moral See also:philosophy. In 28o8 he accompanied the community of Crook Hall to the new college at Ushaw, Durham, but in 1811, after declining the See also:presidency of' the college at See also:Maynooth, he withdrew to the secluded ,See also:mission at See also:Hornby in See also:Lancashire, where for the See also:rest of his See also:life he devoted himself to See also:literary pursuits. In 1817 he visited See also:Rome, where he made researches in the Vatican Library. In r82r See also:Pope See also:Pius VII.. created him See also:doctor of divinity and of See also:canon and See also:civil See also:law; and in 1825 See also:Leo XII. is said to have made him See also:cardinal in petto. He died at Hornby on the 17th of See also:July 1851. Lingard wrote The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon See also:Church (18o6), of which a third and greatly enlarged addition appeared in 2845 under the See also:title The See also:History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church; containing an See also:account of its origin, See also:government, dottrines, See also:worship, revenues, and clerical and monastic institutions; but the See also:work with which his name is chiefly associated is A History of. England, from the first invasion by the See also:Romans to the commencement of the reign of See also:William III., which appeared originally in 8 vols. at intervals between 1819 and 183o. Three successive subsequent See also:editions had the benefit of extensive revision by the author; a fifth edition in to vols. 8vo appeared in 1849, and a See also:sixth, with life of the author by See also:Tierney prefixed to vol. x., in 1854-1855.

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appearance it was translated into See also:French, See also:German and See also:Italian. It is a work of ability and See also:research; and, though Cardinal See also:Wiseman's claim for its author that he was " the only impartial historian of our See also:country" may be disregarded, the See also:book remains interesting as representing the view taken of certain events in English history by a devout, but able and learned, See also:Roman See also:Catholic in the earlier See also:part of the 19th See also:century.

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