biography
pronunciation:
[tohland]
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| lived:
| (1670–1722)
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| biography:
| Religious writer, born a Catholic near Londonderry, Co Londonderry, NW Northern Ireland, UK. He became a Protestant in his teens, and studied at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leyden, and Oxford universities. His Christianity not Mysterious (1696) was burnt by the hangman in Dublin, by order of the House of Commons, as being ‘atheistical and subversive’. In Amyntor (1699) and other works he debated the comparative evidence for the canonical and apocryphal Scriptures. He took refuge in England, and his pro-Hanoverian pamphlet Anglia libera secured him the favour of the Electress Sophia (1630–1714), the mother of George I. |
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