Description: Two antique portraits of Zachary Pearce (1690 -1774) English bishop of Bangor and Rochester as well as Dean of Westminster - see below. One is dated 1776 and the other referring to the "Late Bishop of Rochester" is not dated but also from the late 1700's. One has been trimmed from a larger page Good condition with minor marks to the wide borders of one - see scans. These are genuine antique engravings and not reproductions. Image sizes approx. 8 x 5.5 inches and smallerZachary PearceFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaZachary PearceBishop of RochesterInstalled1756Term ended1774PredecessorJoseph WilcocksSuccessorJohn ThomasOther postsBishop of Bangor, Dean of WestminsterPersonal detailsBorn8 September 1690Died29 June 1774NationalityEnglish/BritishDenominationChurch of EnglandAlma materTrinity College, CambridgeAnglicanism portalZachary Pearce, sometimes known as Zachariah (8 September 1690 – 29 June 1774), was an English Bishop of Bangor and Bishop of Rochester. He was a controversialist and a notable early critical writer defending John Milton,[1] attacking Richard Bentley's 1732 edition of Paradise Lost the following year.Life[edit]Pearce was born the son of Thomas or John Pearce, a distiller, in 1690 in the parish of St Giles, High Holborn. He first attended Great Ealing School.[2] and then Westminster School. He graduated BA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1713/4 and MA in 1717.[3]He was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1716–1720) [4] and chaplain to the Lord Chancellor, Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. Parker became his patron, to whom Pearce dedicated an edition of the de oratoreof Cicero. He became rector of Stapleford Abbots, Essex (1719–1722) and St Batholemew, Royal Exchange (1720–1724) He was vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in 1726.[5] He was then Dean of Winchester in 1739, Bishop of Bangor in 1748, and Bishop of Rochester in 1756. In 1761 he turned down the position of bishop of London.[4] He was Dean of Westminster (1756–1768).He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1720.[6] Towards the end of Isaac Newton's life, Pearce assisted him on chronology[7]There is a monument to Pearce in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Bromley.[8] He had married Mary, daughter of Benjamin Adams, a distiller, of Holborn.Works[edit]The Miracles of Jesus Vindicated (1729) was written against Thomas Woolston. A Reply to the Letter to Dr. Waterland was against Conyers Middleton, defending Daniel Waterland; Pearce engaged in this controversy as a former student of William Wake.[9]Other works were:Cicero, Dialogi tres de oratore (1716)Longinus, De sublimitate commentarius (1724)Cicero, De officiis libri tres (1745)He also published sermons; he preached at the funeral of Sir Hans Sloane.[10]
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