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See also:SHARP, See also:GRANVILLE (1735-1813) , See also:English philanthropist, was the ninth of the fourteen See also:children of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Sharp (1693-1958), a prolific theological writer and biographer of his See also:father, See also:John Sharp, See also:archbishop of See also:York. Granville, who was See also:born at See also:Durham in 1735, was educated at the See also:grammar school there, and apprenticed to a See also:London See also:draper, but obtained employment in the See also:government See also:ordnance See also:department in 1758. Sharp's tastes were scholarly; he managed to acquire knowledge of See also:Greek and See also:Hebrew, and before 1770 he had published more than one See also:treatise on biblical See also:criticism. His fame rests, however, on his untiring efforts for the abolition of See also:slavery. In 1767 he had become involved in litigation with the owner of a slave called See also:Jonathan Strong, in which it was decided that a slave remained in See also:law the See also:chattel of his See also:master even on English See also:soil. Sharp devoted himself to fighting this See also:judgment both with his See also:pen and in the courts of law; and finally it was laid down in the See also:case of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Sommersett that .a slave becomes See also:free the moment he sets See also:foot on English territory. Sharp was an ardent sympathizer with the revolted See also:American colonists, and at See also:home advocated See also:parliamentary reform and the legislative See also:independence of See also:Ireland, and agitated against the See also:impressment of sailors for the See also:navy. It was through his efforts that bishops for the See also:United States of See also:America were consecrated by the archbishop of Canter-See also:bury in 1787. In the same See also:year he was the means of See also:founding a society for the abolition of slavery, and a See also:settlement for
emancipated slaves at Sierra Leone. Granville Sharp was also one of the founders of the See also:British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible Society, and of the Society for the See also:Conversion of the See also:Jews. One of his tracts, entitled Remarks on the Uses of the definitive See also:article in the Greek See also:text of the New Testament, published in 1798, propounded the See also:rule known as " Granville Sharp's See also:canon," which on See also:account of its important bearing on Unitarian See also:doctrine led to a celebrated controversy, in which many leading divines took See also:part, including See also:Christopher See also:Wordsworth. This rule was to the effect that " when two See also:personal nouns of the same case are connected by the copulate rcai, if the former has the definite article and the latter has not, they both belong to the same See also:person. " Sharp died on the 6th of See also:July 1813, and a_memorial of him was erected in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey.
See See also:Prince See also:Hoare, See also:Memoirs of Granville Sharp (London, 1820), which contains observations by See also:Bishop See also:Burgess on Sharp's biblical criticisms; See also:Sir James See also:Stephen, Essays in Ecclesiastical See also:Biography (London, 186o) ; Thomav See also:Clarkson, See also:History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the See also:African Slave See also:Trade by the British See also:Parliament (London, 1839).
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