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HCNTINOTON, ROBERT, D.D. 



HURLSTOyE. FREDERICK YEATES. 



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i time chirfly attended in their public ministrations. Sh found 

 in these doctrinal matter of consolation and delight, and she nought 

 to wake other* participate with her in the advantage! they were 

 uppoatd by her to afford. 



The doctrine to which the meet inclined wa that of WhiteBcld, 

 whom the appointrd her chaplain, and who adopted the tenet* of 

 Calvinism rather than the doctrine of Wesley, which wai Armiuian. 

 \\ hiieSeld made no attempt to found a separate sect, but when the 

 counteas oboee to a>aume a tort of leadership among bit followers, mid 

 to act henelf as the founder of a teat, those who might properly have 

 been called \Vhitefieldiaa Methodists came to be known as 'the 

 Countete of Huntingdon's Connexion.' Tlio countess had the com- 

 mand of a cooiiderable income during the forty-four yean of her 

 widowhood, and at her own personal expenses were few, and she 

 engaged the assistance of other opulent persons, members of her own 

 family or other persons who were wrought upon as she was, she was 

 enabled to establish and support a college, at Trevecca in Wales, for 

 the education of ministers ; to build numerous chapels, and to assist 

 in the support of the minister* in them. She died in 1791, and the 

 number of her chapels at the time of her death is stated to hare been 

 sixty-four, the principal of which was that at Bath, where she herself 

 frequently attended. She created a trust for the management of her 

 college and chapels after her death. The college was soon after 

 removed to Cheshunt, Herts, where it still flourishes ; but her cbapeh 

 hare for the most part become in doctrine and practice almost 

 identical with those of the Congregational or Independent body, the 

 chief distinction being in the use of a portion at least of the ' Book 

 of Common Prayer,' though where not expressly directed in the trust- 

 deed that practice has iu many instances been abandoned. In 1851 

 there were, according to the Census, 109 chapels belonging to the 

 Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion in England and Wales. 



Other ladies of the family of Hastings were distinguished for their 

 piety and zeal. Lady Elizabeth Hustings, half-sister to her lord, died 

 in 1739, when Methodism was first beginning to attract very much of 

 the public attention. She made large gifts to religious objects, but 

 the confined them to the Church, and subjected them to the general 

 regulations of the affairs of that community. Lady Margaret, the 

 own sister of the earl, gave herself in marriage to one of the Methodist 

 preachers, Mr. Ingham. Lady Catherine, another sister, married a 

 clergyman, the Rev. Qrauville Wheeler. Of Ferdinando Hustings, a 

 brother of the earl, who died in 1726, nt the age of twenty -seven, 

 there is an agreeable picture of a pious and amiable person in Wilford's 

 'Memorials.' 



HUNTlNGTOtf, ROBERT, D.D., was born in February 1636, at 

 Deorhyrst in Gloucestershire, where his father, of the same names, 

 was parish clergyman. After having received the rudiments of a 

 olasrical education at the free-school of Bristol, he was admitted iu 

 1652 a portioniat of Merton College, Oxford ; and, having taken bis 

 Bachelor's degree in 1658, he was soon after elected to a fellowship iu 

 that college. He took his degree of Master of Arts in 1663 ; and, 

 having then applied himself with great success to the study of the 

 oriental languages, he was in 1670 appointed to the situation of 

 chapUiu to the English factory at Aleppo. This post he held for 

 above eleven years, during which time be visited Jerusalem, CJalile , 

 Samnria, Cyprus in 1677, and Egypt in 1680, and again in 1681, 

 besides making an unsuccessful attempt in 167S to reach Palmy m. 

 He returned home in 1682, through Italy and France, and, resumiug 

 his college life, accumulated the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor iu 

 Divinity in June of the following year. In the latter part of that 

 year be was prevailed upon with much reluctance to accept the place 

 of provost or master of Trinity College, Dublin ; but after first taking 

 flight on the invasion of Ireland by the deposed king after the 

 revolution, and then returning to that country for a short time, he 

 resigned in 1091, and once more came over to England. In August 

 1692 be was presented by Sir Eiiward Turner to the rectory of Great 

 Hallingbury, in Essex; and while there he married a sister of Sir 

 John l'ow-11, one of the justices of the King's Bench. He seems still 

 however to have felt uncomfortable in what be describes in some of 

 hit printed letters as a rustic solitude, where ho was banished alike 

 from books and friends, from the living and the dead ; and, although 

 he bad tome years before refused the biahopric of Kilmore in Ireland, 

 hit aversion to that country gave way BO far that in 1701 he consented 

 to accept that of liaphoe. But ho died there on the 2nd of September 

 in the tame year, twelve days after his consecration. 



The only literary performance that Bishop Huntington published 

 was a abort paper in the 'Philosophical Transactions' (No. 161), 

 entitled ' A Letter from Dublin concerning the Porphyry Pillars iu 

 Egypt' The writer of bio Life in the ' Biographia Britaunica ' states 

 that tome of hit observation! are printed in Ray's 'Collection of 

 Curious Travels and Voyages,' 2 voln. 8vo, IGytf; but all which that 

 work contains it the ' Letter on the Porphyry Pillars,' which is iu 

 vol. it, pp. 149-155. At the cud of the reprint is a notice extracted 

 from the 'Journal des Sea vans ' (No. 25, 1692), of a letter from 

 If. Cuper to the Abbs' Nicaire, intimating that lie had just heard 

 from Aleppo " that aome English grntlemeu, out of curiosity going to 

 visit the ruin* of Palmyra, had found 400 marble columns, of a sort 

 of porphyry, and also observed some temples yet entire, with tombs, 

 monument*, Greek and Latin inscriptions," of all of which he hoped 



to get copies. This would probably be the earliest information 

 received by the English public of the successful accomplishment of 

 the first modern journey to Palmyra, which was achieved by aome 

 gentlemen of the factory at Aleppo iu 1691, and of which a full 

 account was given in the 'Philosophical Transactions' for 1695. Kay's 

 book may have been printed in the Utter part of 1692, though not 

 published till May 1093, on the 3rd of which month the imprimatur 

 is dated. 



1 >r. Huntington is principally remembered for the numerous oriental 

 manuscripts which he procured while in thu east and brought with 

 him to this country. Besides those which be purchased for Arch- 

 bishop Marsh and Bishop Fell, he obtained between six and seven 

 hundred for himself, which are now in the Bodleian Library, to which 

 ho first presented thirty-five of them, and then sold the rest in 1691 

 for the small sum of 7001. Huntington however missed what was 

 the principal object of his search, the very important Syriae version 

 of the epistles of St. Ignatius, a large portion of which was at length 

 recovered in 1843 by Mr. Tattam from one of the very monasteries 

 in Nitria which Huntingdon had visited in the course of his inquiries, 

 and having been deposited by him in the British Museum, was pub- 

 lished under the care of the Rev. William Curetou, keeper of the 

 oriental manuscripts in that establishment. Several of Huutiugtou's 

 letters, which are addressed to the Archbishop of Mount Sinai, cout&in 

 inquiries about the manuscript of St. Ignatius ; and the same earnest 

 inquiries are made in bis letters to the Patriarch of Antioch. 



There is a ' Life of Bishop Huntiugton,' iu Latin, by Dr. Thomas 

 Smith, at the end of which are thirty-nine of his letters, all in Latin, 

 published in Svo, at London, in 1704 ; and he it the subject of an 

 article in tbe ' Biographia Britanuica.' 



HURD. RICHARD, D.D., Bishop of Worcester, was born in 1720. 

 Bishop Hurd is eminent rather as an elegant scholar than a divine, 

 and U more spoken of on account of his connection with Warburtou 

 thau for his own merits, which were however of no mean order. He 

 was born in Staffordshire, the son of John and Hannah Hurd, " plain, 

 honest, and good people," as he himself hag described them, renting a 

 considerable farm in that county. It was the good fortune of Hurd to 

 live in his childhood near a well conducted grammar-school, that of 

 Brewood, where he had an excellent master, who prepared him well 

 for the university. He went to Cambridge at a much earlier age than 

 is now the custom, about fifteen ; and hu history from that time is 

 that of a scholar, university man, author, and divine, taking his degrees, 

 being ordained, gaining some little preferment, which is followed by 

 greater, and publishing sundry sermons, tracts, au'l books. An ample 

 detail of all this may be read in the sixth volume of Nichols's ' Literary 

 Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century.' 



Dr. Hurd continued to reside at Cambridge as a Fellow of Emmanuel 

 till 1757, when he became rector of Thurcaston iu Leicestershire, 

 where he went to reside. In 1765 he was made preacher of Lincoln's 

 Inn, and in 1767, archdeacon of Gloucester, by his Irieud Bishop 

 Warburton. In 1775 he was made bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 

 whence, in 1781, he was translated to Worcester, where he continued 

 till his death, declining the oiler which was made him of becoming 

 archbishop of Canterbury on the death of Archbishop Corunallis iu 

 1783. He died iu 1808. The writings of Bishop Hurd are too many 

 to be particularly named. The most remarkable are his ' Dialogues,' 

 his ' Letters on Romance and Chivalry,' his ' English Commentary ou 

 the Epistle of Horace on the Art of Poetry,' and the ingenious Essays 

 published with it, his ' Twelve Discourses ou the Prophecies,' his 

 Sermons, and his Life of his friend Bi-lmp Warburton. There is also 

 an octavo volume of the correspondence between Warburton and Hurd, 

 a very pleasing book, and calculated to remove some portion of the 

 ill opinion which many persons have formed of the real character of 

 Warburton, and of the nature of that friendship which so long 

 subsisted between " Warburton and a Warburtonian." 



HURDIS, JAMES, was born at Btsuopstoue, iu Sussex, in the year 

 1763, and brought up at Chicheater school, where he early sho. 

 taste for poetry ami music. In 1780 he entered at St. Mary Hall, 

 Oxford, and was subsequently elected demy ami fellow of Magdalen 

 College, in that university, and took orders. In 1788 he published 

 ' Tue Village Curate,' which seems to have been first produced anony- 

 mously. This work was followed by a tragedy, called ' Sir Thomas 

 More,' and some other poetical works, as well as by two theological 

 ciiti'i'H's on Genesis, and 'Remarks ou the Arrangement of the Plays 

 of Stiakspcare.' In 17U3 he was elected professor of poetry in tl'io 

 university of Oxford, and in 1801 he died. 



Hurdis is now remembered chiefly for his friendship with Cowper, 

 which began about the beginning of the year 1791, and several of 

 Cowper's letters are addressed to him. J'-ut we wish also to point 

 attention to hiui as one of those who awakened or attempted to nwaki-u 

 interest ou thu subject of Shakspere criticism, as it is most desirable 

 that all who study Sbakspere should be made acquainted with the 

 several steps which have been made both here and elsewhere, in the 

 critical investigation of his wiitin ;s. 



HUKLSTUNE, FREDERICK YEATES, president of the Society 

 uf British Artists, was born iu London iu 1301. Mr. Hurlstone began 

 to exhibit at the Royal Academy about 1620, and for some ten years 

 his name appears regularly in the catalogue ; but becoming dissatisfied 

 with the place assigned to his pictures he ceased to send hit works to 



