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SHERLOCK, THOMAS (1678-1761)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 850 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHERLOCK, See also:THOMAS (1678-1761) , See also:English divine, the son of See also:William Sherlock (q.v.), was See also:born at See also:London in 1678. He was educated at See also:Eton and at St Catharine's See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, and in 1704 succeeded his See also:father as See also:master of the See also:Temple, where he was very popular. In 1714 he became master of his old See also:college at Cambridge and See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university, whose privileges he defended against See also:Richard See also:Bentley. In 1715 he was appointed See also:dean of See also:Chichester. He took a prominent See also:part in the Bangorian controversy against See also:Benjamin See also:Hoadly, whom he succeeded as See also:bishop of See also:Bangor in 1728; he was afterwards translated to See also:Salisbury in 1734, and to London in 1748. Sherlock was a capable See also:administrator, and cultivated friendly relations with dissenters. In See also:parliament he was of See also:good service to his old schoolfellow See also:Robert See also:Walpole. He published against See also:Anthony See also:Collins's deistic Grounds of the See also:Christian See also:Religion a See also:volume of sermons entitled The Use and See also:Interest of Prophecy in the Several Ages of the See also:World (1725); and in reply to Thomas See also:Woolston's Discourses on the Miracles he wrote a volume entitled The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus (1729), which soon ran through fourteen See also:editions. His See also:Pastoral See also:Letter (1750) on " the See also:late earthquakes " had a circulation of many thousands, and four or five volumes of Sermons which he published in his later years (1754-1758) were also at one See also:time highly esteemed. He died in See also:July 1761. A collected edition of his See also:works, with a memoir, in 5 vols. 8vo, by J.

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