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PORTEUS, BEILBY (1731-18o8)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 117 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PORTEUS, BEILBY (1731-18o8) , See also:bishop of See also:London, was See also:born at See also:York and educated at See also:Christ's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he became See also:fellow in 1752. He was ordained in 1757, and in 1762 was appointed domestic See also:chaplain to the See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury. In 1767 he became See also:rector of See also:Lambeth, and took his D.D. degree at Cambridge, See also:preaching on that occasion a See also:sermon which induced See also:John See also:Norris (1734–1777) to found the Norrisian See also:professor-See also:ship of divinity. About two years later he was appointed chaplain to the See also:king and See also:master of the See also:hospital of St See also:Cross, See also:Winchester. In 1776 he became bishop of See also:Chester, and in 1787 he was translated to London. He was a supporter of the See also:Church Missionary and the See also:British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible See also:societies, and laboured for the abolition of See also:slavery. Of his published See also:works the See also:Review of the See also:Life and See also:Character of Archbishop See also:Secker (London, 1770), and the See also:Summary of the See also:principal Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the See also:Christian See also:Revelation (London, 'Soo), have passed through numerous See also:editions.

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