biography
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Newman, Francis William
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1805–97)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was elected to a fellowship at Balliol College. He went as an unsectarian missionary to Baghdad (1830–3), then returned to England and became classical tutor at Bristol College (1834), professor at Manchester New College (1840), and professor of Latin at University College London (1846–69). In religion he took a position directly opposite that of his brother (John Henry Newman), being eager for a religion including whatever is best in all the historical religions. Phases of Faith (1853) is the best-known of his works. |
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