A Dictionary of Biography Comprising the Most Eminent Characters of All Ages
A Dictionary of Biography Comprising the Most Eminent Characters of All Ages
R a Richard Alfred Davenport
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He emigrated to New Eng- land in HiliS. And after ser\in<4 for a num- ber of years in the ministry at Sciluate, 174 CHE was appointed in 1654, president of Har- vard College. In this office he remained till his death in 1671, performing all its duties with industrious fidelity. He was eminent as a physician, and was of opinion that there ought to be no distinction be-' tween physic and divinity.
CHAUNCEY, SirHKNRY, was born in Hertfordshire, in 1632; studied at Cains College, Cambridge, and the Middle Tem- ple; was knighted in 1681, and made a Welsh judge in 1688; and died in 1700. He is the author of Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, in folio; a work of con- siderable merit.
CHAUSSARD, PETER, a poet and miscellaneous author, was born at Paris, in 1766. He was one of the partisans of the French revolution, and filled some sub- ordinate offices during the early part of it. He died in 1823. Of his numerous works the chief are, a Translation of Arrian ; The Festivals and Courtisans of Greece ; Heliogabalus; and some Poems.
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