Richard Watson

(b. 1737, Heversham, Cumbria – d. July 4, 1816, Calgarth Park, Windermere, Cumbria )

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Richard Watson (1737-1816) was Bishop of Llandaff from 1782-1816. He was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1771, and published a number of works of religious apologetics. In 1780 he preached a sermon in Cambridge on the day before an appointed general fast, which attracted a response by William Vincent, Dean of Westminster and headmaster of Westminster School, entitled A Letter to the Reverend Dr Richard Watson, King’s Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge.

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Richard Watson

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