The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ientist and natural philos-opher. While Harvard still continued under thecharge of a president and tutors, and had but oneprofessor, William and Mary had for many yearsprided itsel
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ientist and natural philos-opher. While Harvard still continued under thecharge of a president and tutors, and had but oneprofessor, William and Mary had for many yearsprided itself upon a full faculty of professors, grad-uates of the Scottish and English universities. Hishealth failing him in 1771 President Horrocks sailedfor England with his wife, on board the Savannahla Mar, leaving John Camm to represent him aspresident of the college, the Rev. Mr. Willie as com-missary, and the Rev. Mr. Henley as minister ofBruton parish church, which several offices he hadunited in his own name. The succeeding year, how-ever, the Virginia Gazette announced his deathat Oporto on March 20, 1772, describing him as agentleman well versed in several branches of learn-ing, particularly the mathematics, and eminentlypossessed of those virtues which increase in value asthey are furthest from ostentation. He left a bro-ther, Thomas Horrocks of Wakefield, in Great Bri-tain, and a sister, Frances CAMM, Jolin, seventh president of William andMary college, was born in England in 1718, tlie sonof Thomas Camm of Hornsea, and went to school atBeverley, in York county, in that kingdom. Hematriculated at Trinitj col-lege, Cambridge, June 6, /f Jf /•1738, as a subsizator. O^Mn, l,a/ryit**.On Aug. 24, 1749, he qual-ified as professor of divinity in William and Marycollege, and was also elected minister of York-Hampton parish. He was the last of the colonialpresidents of William and Mary, and succeeded Hor-rocks as head of the college, and head of the estab-lished church
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