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Gentleman's Magazine 1827 part 1 p.178
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obituary Septimus Collinson |
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Obituary, Septimus
Collinson
Obituary SEPTIMUS COLLINSON, D.D. Jan. 24. At his Lodge, aged 87, the Rev. Septimus Collinson, D.D Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, Margaret Professor of Divinity, Prebendary of Worcester, and Rector of Dowlish Wake and Dowlish West in Somerset. Dr. Collinson was educated at Queen's College. He took the degree of M.A. in 1767, was presented to his rectories in 1778 by J. Hanning. esq., proceeded to B.D. in 1792, and D.D. in the following year. He was for some years one of the City Lecturers, and resigned in 1795. He succeeded Dr. Fothergill as Provost of Queen's in 1796, and was elected Margaret Professor of Divinity, in the place of Dr. Neve of Merton College, in 1798. The duties of his Provostship, to which situation Dr. Collinson was unanimously elected, and which he enjoyed for a longer period than any former Provost, were discharged by him with great ability, diligence, and discretion. In his office of Professor he labouored with unexampled efficiency and zeal. The Lectures on the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, which he delivered in that capacity, evinced deep research, sound judgment, correct and enlarged views of religion, and great moderation. He was justly esteemed by the University, as having rendered a most important service by those Lectures. So great was his anxiety to be useful in that department, that he delivered a course of Lectures at the age of eighty. He frequently preached before the University, even when he had arrived at a very advanced age. The sermons which he delivered before that audience, exhibited decisive proofs of a vigorous and acute mind, habituated to calm and accurate reasoning. His delivery was peculiarly impressive, and he never failed to produce a very powerful effect on the minds of his numerous hearers. His character was marked by very high independence. To all public institutions of acknowledged utility he was a liberal benefactor. In social intercourse he exhibited a disposition singularly benevolent. No uncharitable nor unkind expression fell from his lips. He possessed remarkable equanimity; and retained, even to the conclusion of life, (Septimus Collinson endowed a school at Great Musgrave.) |
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