John Hulse (1708 - 1790), English divine, was born--the eldest of a family of nineteen--at Middlewich, in Cheshire. // Events March 23 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth July 1 - Tewoflos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia September 28 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya Kandahar conquered by Mir Wais In Masuria one third of the population die during the plague J... 1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... Location within the British Isles Middlewich is a town in Cheshire, England. ...

Entering St John's College, Cambridge, in 1724, he graduated in 1728; and on taking orders (in 1732) was presented to a small country curacy. His father having died in 1753, Hulse succeeded to his estates in Cheshire, where, owing to feeble health, he lived in retirement till his death in December 1790. He bequeathed his estates to Cambridge University for the purpose of maintaining two divinity scholars (£30 a year each) at St John's College, of founding a prize for a dissertation, and ofinstituting the offices of Christian advocate and of Christian preacher or Hulsean lecturer. Full name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto - Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, named after John the Evangelist Previous names - Established 1511 Sister College(s) Balliol College, Oxford Trinity College, Dublin Master Prof. ... REDIRECT [1] ... As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation Christ, which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. ...

By a statute in 1860 the Hulsean professorship of divinity was substituted for the office of Christian-advocate, and the lectureship was considerably modified. The first course of lectures under the benefaction was delivered in 1820. In 1830 the number of annual lectures or sermons was reduced from twenty to eight; after 1861 they were further reduced to a minimum of four. The annual value of the Hulse endowment is between £800 and £900, of which eight-tenths go to the professor of divinity and one-tenth to the prize and lectureship respectively. 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... The Norris-Hulse Professorship of Divinity is one of the senior professorships in divinity at the University of Cambridge. ...

An account of the Hulsean lectures from 1820 to 1894 is given in J Hunt's Religious Thought in the 19th Century, 332-338; among the lecturers have been: 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

• Henry Alford (1C41)
• Richard Chenevix Trench (1845)
• Christopher Wordsworth (1847)
• Charles Merivale (1861)
• James Moorhouse (1865)
• Frederic William Farrar (1870)
• Fenton John Anthony Hort (1871)
• William Boyd Carpenter (1878)
• William Cunningham (1885)
• Mandell Creighton (1893).

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