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Lancelot Addison
(1632 ? 20 April 1703) was an English writer and Church of England clergyman. He was born at
Crosby Ravensworth
[1]
in
Westmorland
. He was educated at the
Queen's College, Oxford
.
Addison worked at
Tangier
as a
chaplain
for seven years and upon his return he wrote
"West Barbary, or a Short Narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco",
(1671).
In 1670 he was appointed
royal chaplain
or Chaplain in Ordinary to the King,
[1]
shortly thereafter
Rector
of
Milston
, Wilts (from 1670 to 1681), and Prebendary in the Cathedral of Salisbury.
[1]
In 1681 Milston Rectory burnt down.
[2]
In 1683 he became
Dean of Lichfield
, and in 1684
Archdeacon of Coventry
.
Among his other works was
"The Present State of the Jews"
(1675), a detailed study of the Jewish population of the Barbary Coast in the seventeenth century, their customs, and their religious behaviour.
[3]
Scholars have pointed out that part of Addison's book simply repeats material found in the English translation of
Johannes Buxtorf
's work
Synagoga Judaica: The Jewish Synagogue, or an Historical Narration of the State of the Jewes
(London, 1657).
[4]
He died in 1703 leaving three sons, the essayist
Joseph Addison
(1672?1719, eldest child),
Gulston Addison
, who became Governor of
Madras
, and the scholar Lancelot Addison (1680?1710), and two daughters: Dorothy Addison (1674?1750) and Anne Addison (1676-Unknown).
Addison was buried in
Lichfield Cathedral
in
Staffordshire
.
Notes
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- ^
a
b
c
John Julian:
Dictionary of Hymnology
, 2nd edition, p. 19. London: John Murray, 1907.
- ^
ODNB: Pat Rogers, "Addison, Joseph (1672?1719)"
[1]
; Alastair Hamilton, "Addison, Lancelot (1632?1703)"
Retrieved 1 May 2014
- ^
Rosenberger Collection, University of Chicago; Early Apologists
and Christian Hebraists #13
[2]
- ^
University of Pennsylvania Library
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