John Addenbrooke or Addenbrook (bapt. 21 December 1691 [1] – 25 February 1776) was an English Anglican priest who was Dean of Lichfield from 1745 until his death in 1776. [2] [3]
Addenbrooke was the eldest son of Rev. John Addenbrooke (1652–1724) of Upper Sapey, Herefordshire, and his wife, Elizabeth Nash. [4]
He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge; [5] he was Rector of Sudbury, Derbyshire before his time as Dean. [6]
He married Dorothy, daughter and co-heiress of John Wedgwood of Harracles Hall, Staffordshire. [4]
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the military conflict of the American Revolution in which American Patriot forces under George Washington's command defeated the British, establishing and securing the independence of the United States. Fighting began on April 19, 1775, at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The war was formalized and intensified following passage of the Lee Resolution on July 2, 1776, which asserted that the Thirteen Colonies were "free and independent states", and the Declaration of Independence, drafted by the Committee of Five and written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, two days later, on July 4, 1776, by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Edward Waring was a British mathematician. He entered Magdalene College, Cambridge as a sizar and became Senior wrangler in 1757. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalene and in 1760 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, holding the chair until his death. He made the assertion known as Waring's problem without proof in his writings Meditationes Algebraicae. Waring was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763 and awarded the Copley Medal in 1784.
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John Douglas was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop.
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