biography
pronunciation:
[chaloner]
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| lived:
| (1691–1781)
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| biography:
| Roman Catholic clergyman and writer, born in Lewes, East Sussex, SE England, UK. He studied at Douai (1704) and was ordained in 1716, remaining there as a professor until 1730. He then served as a missionary priest in London, becoming Bishop of Debra (1741) and Vicar Apostolic of the London district (1758). His best-known works are the prayer book, The Garden of the Soul (1740), and his revision of the Douai version of the Bible (5 vols, 1750). |
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