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WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1817-1870)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 683 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAMS, See also:ROWLAND (1817-1870) , See also:English divine and See also:scholar, was See also:born at Halkyn, See also:Flint, the son of Rowland Williams (d. 1854), See also:canon of St See also:Asaph, and educated at See also:Eton and See also:Cam-See also:bridge. He was elected See also:fellow of See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1839, and took orders in 1842. During the next few years he actively opposed the amalgamation of the See also:sees of St Asaph and See also:Bangor. In 1850 he became See also:vice-See also:principal and See also:Hebrew lecturer at St See also:David's College, See also:Lampeter, where he introduced much-needed educational and See also:financial reforms. He was appointed select preacher of Cambridge University in 1854, and preached a See also:sermon on See also:inspiration, afterwards published in his Rational Godliness after the Mind of See also:Christ and the Written Voices of the See also:Church (See also:London, 1855). He was charged with heterodoxy, and See also:Alfred 011ivant (1798-1882), See also:bishop of See also:Llandaff, required him to resign his chaplaincy, but he remained at the college in spiteof these difficulties. His views were further defined in See also:Christianity and See also:Hinduism (Cambridge, 1856), an expansion of the See also:Muir See also:prize See also:essay which he had won in 1848. He became See also:vicar in 1858 of Broadchalke with Bowerchalke and Alvedistone, See also:Wiltshire. As a result of his favourable See also:review of See also:Bunsen's " Biblical Re-searches " contributed to Essays and Reviews (186o) he was prosecuted for heterodoxy. An unfavourable See also:judgment was given by the See also:Canterbury See also:Court of See also:Arches in 1862, but reversed by the Privy See also:Council in 1864. Williams died on the 18th of See also:January 187o.

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works his most important See also:production was a See also:translation of the Hebrew Prophets with commentary (pt. i. 1866; pt. ii. edited by Mrs Williams 1871; pt. iii. though planned was never written). See See also:Life and Letters, edited by Mrs Williams (2 vols., 1874) ; and T. K. See also:Cheyne, Founders of Old Testament See also:Criticism (1893).

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