John Banks Hollingworth was Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 25 February 1828 until his death on 9 February 1856. [1]
Hollingworth was born in 1780, educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge [2] and ordained in 1804. He held incumbencies at Little St Mary's, Cambridge and St Margaret Lothbury; and was Norrisian Professor of Divinity from 1824 to 1838. [3]
John Venn, FRS, FSA was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science. In 1866, Venn published The Logic of Chance, a ground-breaking book which espoused the frequency theory of probability, arguing that probability should be determined by how often something is forecast to occur as opposed to “educated” assumptions. Venn then further developed George Boole's theories in the 1881 work Symbolic Logic, where he highlighted what would become known as Venn diagrams.
The Norris–Hulse Professorship of Divinity is one of the senior professorships in divinity at the University of Cambridge.
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Thomas Earle Welby was an English missionary, clergyman and former soldier. The younger son of a baronet, he served in the army for eight years, but, after leaving 1837, served as a missionary in Canada, where he became a rector, and later as an archdeacon in South Africa, before going on to be consecrated as the second bishop of the island Saint Helena in the Anglican church.
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John Archibald Venn was a British economist. He was President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1932 until his death, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University 1941–1943, university archivist, and author, with his father, of Alumni Cantabrigienses. His father was logician John Venn.
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Sir John Robert Laurie Emilius Bayley, 3rd Baronet, later Sir Emilius Laurie, was an English clergyman, baronet and amateur cricketer. He was generally known by his middle-name Emilius and changed his surname to Laurie in 1887.
Thomas Jackson Calvert (1775–1840) was an English Anglican priest and theologian. Calvert was born in 1775; educated at Kirkham Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge; and ordained in 1800. He held incumbencies at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor and Manchester Collegiate Church. He was Norrisian Professor of Divinity from 1815 to 1824. He died on 4 June 1840.
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Thomas Cosyn was a priest and academic in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
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Richard Butler was Archdeacon of Northampton from 9 July 1611 until his death. Butler was among the earliest Arminians, along with John Buckeridge, Benjamin Carier, and Richard Neile.
