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LINDSEY, THEOPHILUS (1723—1808)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 720 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LINDSEY, See also:THEOPHILUS (1723—1808) , See also:English theologian, was See also:born in See also:Middlewich, See also:Cheshire, on the loth of See also:June 1723, and was educated at the See also:Leeds See also:Free School and at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where in 1747 he became a See also:fellow. For some See also:time he held a curacy in See also:Spitalfields, See also:London, and from 1754 to 1756 he travelled on the See also:continent of See also:Europe as See also:tutor to the See also:young See also:duke of See also:Northumberland. He was then presented to the living of See also:Kirkby-Wiske in See also:Yorkshire, and after exchanging it for that of Piddletown in See also:Dorsetshire, he removed in 1763 to Catterick in Yorkshire. Here. about 1764 he founded one of the first See also:Sunday See also:schools in See also:England. Meanwhile he had begun to entertain See also:anti-Trinitarian views, and to be troubled in See also:conscience about their inconsistency with the See also:Anglican belief; since 1769 the intimate friendship of See also:Joseph See also:Priestley had served to See also:foster his scruples, and in 1771 he See also:united with See also:Francis See also:Blackburne, See also:archdeacon of See also:Cleveland (his See also:father-in-See also:law), John See also:Jebb (1.736–1786), See also:Christopher Wyvill (1740—1822) and See also:Edmund Law 1703–1787), See also:bishop of See also:Carlisle, in preparing a See also:petition to See also:parliament with the See also:prayer that clergymen of the See also:church and graduates of the See also:universities might be relieved from the See also:burden of subscribing to the See also:thirty-nine articles, and " restored to their undoubted rights as Protestants of interpreting Scripture for themselves." Two See also:hundred and fifty signatures were obtained, but in See also:February 1772 the See also:House of See also:Commons declined even to receive the petition by a See also:majority of 217 to 71; the adverse See also:vote was repeated in the following See also:year, and in the end of 1773, seeing no prospect of obtaining within the church the See also:relief which his conscience demanded, Lindsey resigned his vicarage. In See also:April 1774 he began to. conduct Unitarian services in a See also:room in See also:Essex See also:Street, Strand, London, where first a church, and afterwards the Unitarian offices, were established. Here he remained till 1793, when he resigned his See also:charge in favour of John Disney (1746-1816), who like himself had See also:left the established church and had become his colleague. He died on the 3rd of See also:November x8o8. Lindsey's See also:chief See also:work is An See also:Historical View of the See also:State of the Unitarian See also:Doctrine and See also:Worship from the See also:Reformation to our own Times (1783) ; in it he claims, amongst others, See also:Burnet; See also:Tillotson. S. See also:Clarke, See also:Hoadly and See also:Sir I. See also:Newton for the Unitarian view.

His other publications include See also:

Apology on Resigning the Vicarage of Catterick (1774), and Sequel to the Apology (1776); The See also:Book of See also:Common Prayer reformed according to the See also:plan of the See also:late Dr See also:Samuel Clarke (1774) ; See also:Dissertations on the See also:Preface to St John's See also:Gospel and on praying to Jesus See also:Christ (1779); Vindiciae Priestleianae (1788); Conversations upon See also:Christian See also:Idolatry (1792) ; and Conversations on the Divine See also:Government, showing that everything is from See also:God, and for See also:good to all (1802). Two volumes of Sermons, with appropriate prayers annexed, were published posthumously in 181o; and a See also:volume of See also:Memoirs, by See also:Thomas See also:Belsham, appeared in 1812.

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