John Burton (1696-1771), English theologian, clergyman and scholar. Burton studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, attaining the degree of Doctor o
John Burton (1696-1771), English theologian, clergyman and scholar. Burton studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, attaining the degree of Doctor of Divinity () in 1752. He was vicar at Mapledurham from 1734, and a Fellow at Eton College from 1733. He was later Vice-Provost at Eton. From 1766 he was rector at Worplesdon in Surrey. He delivered numerous sermons and tracts, one describing the founding of colony that is now the US state of Georgia. Artwork from 'Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century', an 8-volume work published between 1817 and 1858 by English printer and antiquarian John Nichols and his son John Bowyer Nichols.
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