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Jennings had, sometime before his death, 
given it as his judgment, that he thought 
Mr. Doddridge the most hkely of any of 
his pupils, to pursue the schemes which 
he had formed. Accordinyly after the 
death of his tutor, he consulted several of 
his triends, particularly Drs. Watts and 
Clarke, who earnestly pressed him to the 
undertaking. He re-opened the academy 
at. Harborough, at Midsummer, 1729, 
and towards the latter end of the same 
year, removed to Northampton. There 
be resided for near two and twenty years; 
with what reputation and success, both as 
® minister and a tutor, the world has 
long been informed. Dr. Doddridge 
died at Lisbon, whither he went for the 
- recovery of his health, October 26, 1751, 
aged afty. After his death, the academy 
was removed froin Northampton to Da- 
ventry, and placed under the care of the 
Rev. Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Caleb Ash- 
worth, who died July 18, 1775, aged 
fifty-three. Dr. Doddridge always con- 
tinued a great veneration for his Leices- 
tershire friends, amongst whom his mi- 
nistry was opened, which is fully evinced 
ta the dedication to lisSermons to Young 
Persons, which were published in De- 
cember, 1734, when his young friends at 
Hinckley are particularly mentioned. 
Mr. Jeunings was succeeded in the 
ministry by the Rev. Mr. Robert Dax- 
son, who settled amongst them in 1725, 
- gid - continued ee for more than 
twenty-five years. In his time, about 
the year 1727, was built by subscription 
the gallery, and the meeting-house un- 
derwent a thorough repair also by sub- 
scription in 1740. Mr. Dawson died 
June 20th, 1751, in the sixty-sixth year 
of his age, and was buried June the 22d, 
wnder the altar-tomb in the meeting 
yard, at Hinckley. “ Hewas a person of 
strong and elevated genius, was richly 
improved with ancient literature: well he 
joved and knew the sciences, yet better 
loved and knew the cospel; tempering 
his zeal for truth with meekness and 
charity. Lis private character was un- 
spotted, his social virtues ornamental 
and attractive, his piety solid and sub- 
lime. He,.as a friend, was steady, wise, 
sincere; as a christian, adorned the doc- 
trines of Christ ; as a minister , resembled 
his great Master, whom he served many 
years with acceptance and success; and 
was much lamented when suddenly re- 
moved from his usefulness en earth to his 
rewnrd 11 Heaven.” 
Mr. Dawson was followed in 1755, by 
Bir. Nathanael White, whe married a 
Succession of Presbyterian Pastors, at Hinckley. [Feb. 1, 
sister of William Hurst, esq. of Hinckley, 
high-sheriff for Leicestershire in 1778. 
Mr. White, (who was born in London, 
and educated first under Dr. Doddridge, 
at Northampton, and afterwards at Da- 
ventry under Caleb Ashworth), continued 
at Hinckley ull the death of King George 
II. in 1760, on which occasion he preach- 
ed and puolished a sermon, and. after- 
wards went to Leeds; whence, on the 
death of Dr. Chandier, m 1766, he was 
called to assist as joint pastor to Dr. 
Amory, in the congregation of protestant 
dissenters at the Old Jewry ; and on the 
death of Dr. Amory in 1774, was chosen 
sole pastor. Mr. White published a 
sermon for the charity-school, Gravel- 
lane, Southwark; and a third in 1771, 
preached at the Old Jewry, October 27, 
that year, oa the aifecting deaths of Mrs. 
Poole, her two sons and daughter, who 
all dicd is the space of tive days, of an 
inflammatory sore throat; and in 1774, 
his adress at the grace of Dr. Amory, 
subjoined to his funeral sermon by Dr. 
Flexman. He also published a ‘ Charge” 
at the ordination of bis iriead Mi. John 
Prior Estlin, at Sristol, who was born at 
Hinckley, April 9, 1747. Mr. White 
died at Islington, Murch 3, 1783. | His 
widow, Mrs. White, is still living at her - 
native place. 
On Mr. White icaving Thnckley, he 
was succeeded in the ministry in 1765, by 
Mr. Thomas Porter, who inarried Jane, 
daughter of William Boys, esq. lieu- 
tenant-governor of the royal hospital, in 
Greenwich. She died and was buried in 
the meeting-house, at Hinckley. Mr. 
Porter left the congregation 1n 1772. 
And the next in succession, was Mr. 
Jobnu Philipps, who came m the same 
year, a young man of promising attain- 
ments, as a dissenting minister to Hinck- 
ley ; but possessing a mind too active for 
such an obscure life, he declined that 
profession in 1778, for a more lucrative 
one—the law. In this gentleman, an 
observation frequently made, is fully ex- 
emplitied; that abilities and industry, 
however employed, seldom fail of suc- 
cess. Having entered himself a student 
of the Middle Teinple, and passed the 
usual routine of education, with more 
than common attention; he was called to 
the bar, where he practised with success. 
The period was uot then arrived for the 
exercise of those talents which afterwards 
shone so conspicuously; Mr. Fox’s me- 
morable scrutiny on the Westminster 
election called them forth. He was re- 
tamed as eounse! en the eccasion, and 
acquitted 
