Zachary Pearce
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| Zachary Pearce | |
| Bishop of Rochester | |
| Enthroned | 1756 |
|---|---|
| Ended | 1774 |
| Predecessor | Joseph Wilcocks |
| Successor | John Thomas |
| Other | Bishop of Bangor, Dean of Westminster |
| Born | 1690 |
| Died | 1774 |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Zachary Pearce[1] (1690-1774) was an English bishop of Bangor and bishop of Rochester. He was a controversialist, and a notable early critical writer defending John Milton[2], attacking the Richard Bentley 1732 edition of Paradise Lost the following year.
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[edit] Life
Born 1690-09-08 in the parish of St Giles, High Holborn. He first attended Great Ealing School. [3] He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1713/4[4]. He dedicated an edition of the de oratore of Cicero to Thomas Parker. Parker became his patron. He was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1716-1720[5]. Towards the end of Isaac Newton's life, Pearce assisted him on chronology[6].
He became vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in 1726[7]. He was Dean of Winchester in 1739, bishop of Bangor in 1748, and bishop of Rochester in 1756. In 1761 he turned down the position of bishop of London.[5] He was Dean of Westminster 1756-1768.
There is a monument to him in the parish church at Bromley[8].
[edit] Works
The Miracles of Jesus Vindicated (1729) was written against Thomas Woolston. A Reply to the Letter to Dr. Waterland was against Conyers Middleton, defending Daniel Waterland; Pearce engaged in this controversy as a former student of William Wake[9].
Other works were:
- Cicero, Dialogi tres de oratore (1716)
- Longinus, De sublimitate commentarius (1724)
- Cicero, De officiis libri tres (1745)
He also published sermons; he preached at the funeral of Sir Hans Sloane[10].
[edit] Reference
- Lives of Dr. Edward Pocock, the Celebrated Orientalist, by Dr. Twells; of Dr. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, and of Dr. Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol, by Themselves; and of the Rev. Philip Skelton, by Mr. Bundy (1818)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Sometimes known as Zachariah.
- ^ Christopher Ricks, Milton's Grand Style, p. 9.
- ^ Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ David McKitterick (1998), A History of Cambridge University Press, p. 162.
- ^ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Academy Thomas Anson New
- ^ St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square
- ^ Bromley | British History Online
- ^ David B. Ruderman, Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England (2007),p. 47.
- ^ Chelsea - (part 2 of 3) | British History Online
