Beveridge

Beveridge, WILLIAM, Bishop of St Asaph, was born at Barrow, Leicestershire, in 1637, and entering St John's College, Cambridge, in 1653, as a sizar, devoted himself to the study of the classical and Semitic languages, on which latter he published a treatise at the age of twenty. In 1661, having obtained his degree of M.A., he was ordained both deacon and priest. After holding various preferments, in which he was remarkable for his devotion to his pastoral duties, he was, in 1704, appointed to the bishopric of St Asaph, having previously refused to accept that of Bath and Wells, on the deprivation of Dr Thomas Ken for not taking the oaths to the government of William III. He died 5th March 1708. His sermons and other works were published in 1824 (9 vols.); and there is another edition in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology (12 vols. 1842-46); but Private Thoughts upon Religion (1709) is his only work now read.