Langwith, Benjamin (1706-1706)

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Perhaps he taught after his B.A.

Venn: LANGWITH, BENJAMIN. Adm. sizar at Queens', June 13, 1701. Of Yorkshire. (S. of Oswald, clerk of the vestry of York Minster.) Matric. 1701; B.A. 1704-5; M.A. 1708; B.D. 1716; D.D. 1717 (Com. Reg.). Incorp. at Oxford, 1712. Ord. priest (Norwich) Juiy, 1712. R. of Petworth, Sussex, 1718. Preb. of Chichester, 1725-43. Antiquary, numismatist and natural philosopher. Buried at Petworth, Oct. 2, i743. aged 59. Will, Chichester. (D.N.B.)

ODNB: Langwith, Benjamin (1684–1743), antiquary and Church of England clergyman, was born in Yorkshire and baptized on 14 December 1684 at Holy Trinity, Goodrangate, York, the son of Oswald Langwith, clerk of the vestry of York Minster. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, whence he matriculated in 1701, and was elected fellow and tutor. He graduated BA in 1705, MA in 1708, BD in 1716, and DD in 1717. The antiquary Ralph Thoresby placed his son under his care, but, owing to Langwith's negligence, was forced to remove him. Langwith was ordained priest in July 1712 and was instituted to the rectory of Petworth, Sussex, in 1718. He was made prebendary of Chichester on 15 June 1725. On 2 November 1734 he married Sarah Gregory at Headley, Hampshire.

Langwith gave Francis Drake some assistance in the preparation of his Eboracum. Four of Langwith's scientific papers appeared in the Philosophical Transactions. He also wrote Observations on Dr. Arbuthnot's Dissertations on Coins, Weights, and Measures, which was published posthumously in 1747, edited by his widow. It was reissued in the second edition of Arbuthnot's Tables of Ancient Coins (1754). Langwith died in 1743 and was buried at Petworth church on 2 October 1743, aged fifty-nine. His widow, Sarah, died on 8 February 1784, aged ninety-one, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Gordon Goodwin, rev. J. A. Marchand

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