Joseph Blanco White

White, Joseph Blanco

White, Joseph Blanco (1775–1841), born in Seville, a Catholic priest. He abandoned the priesthood and came to England in 1810. He studied at Oxford and became an Anglican cleric, and the friend of Whately, Newman, Pusey, and Froude. His publications include various ecclesiastical works, and translations of Paley's Evidences. Coleridge declared his sonnet ‘Night and Death’ (1828) ‘the finest …sonnet in our language’.

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White, Joseph Blanco

White, Joseph Blanco (1775–1814), theological writer. Born in Spain of Irish parents, he was ordained to the RC priesthood in 1800. He suffered religious doubt, came to England, and became an Anglican; he was well known among the Tractarians. He finally became a Unitarian.

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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "White, Joseph Blanco." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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