Knox, Vicesimus (1775-1821)

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S Vicesimus of Islington, cler; ST JOHNS m 13/7/1771 aged 18; BA 1775, MA 1779, headmaster of Tunbridge Grammar School on d. father 1779-1812, R Runwell and Ramsden Belhouse Essex, etc, died 1821. See Robinson

Father of Thomas [CCE303]
In Fielding MI:
In memory of Vicesimus Knox, DD, Master of Tonbridge School and Rector of Runswell and Ramsden Crays Essex; Born December 8 1752; died Sept 6 1821. A sound divine'; an elegant and profound scholar; a polished and powerful writer; an eloquent, zealous and persuasive preacher of the gospel; he employed his high endowments to the glory of God and the moral and intellectual improvement of man; anxious ever to advance the happiness of his fellow creatures upon purest principles of Christian philanthropy with a lofty spirit of independence and rare disinterestedness in conduct, he disregarded the ordinary objects of worldly ambition and showed himself on all occasions the enemy of public abuses, the friend of civil and religious liberty, the opponent of oppressive war, the promotor of peace and the advocate of all the claims of humanity; He being dead yet speaketh.'

See DNB. Author of Essays Moral and Literary (1778), and Elegant Extracts (1789). The DD was awarded by Philadephia.

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