NEWTON

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NEWTON, Thomas, an English theological writer,born at Lichfield (1703), was educated at Trinity college, Cambridge, where ne obtained a fellowship. In 1744, he obtained the rectory of St. MaryleBow, London, and, in 1745, took the degree of D. D. lie published an edition of the Paradise Lost of Milton, with notes, and a memoir of the author, in 1749; and he afterwards edited, in a similar manner, the Paradise Regained. But his literary reputation depends chiefly on his Dissertations on the Prophecies (1759, 3 vols., 8vo.), several times reprinted. In 1761, doctor Newton was made bishop of Bristol, and afterwards obtained the deanery of St. Paul's, which he held till his death (1782). His works were published with an autobiographical memoir (2 vols., 4to.).