- Lancelot Addison
Reverend Lancelot Addison (
1632 -April 20 ,1703 ) was born at Crosby Ravensworth John Julian: Dictionary of Hymnology, Second Edition, page 19. London: John Murray, 1907.] inWestmorland . He was educated atQueen's College, Oxford .Rev. Addison worked at
Tangier as achaplain for seven years and upon his return he wrote "West Barbary, or a Short Narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fex and Morocco" (1671).In 1670 he was appointed
royal chaplain or Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, shortly thereafter Rector of Milston, Wilts, and Prebendary in the Cathedral of Salisbury. In 1683 became Dean ofLichfield , and in 1684 Archdeacon of Coventry.Among his other works was "The Present State of the Jews" (1675), a detailed study of the Jewish population of the Barbary Coast in the seventeenth century; their customs, and their religious behavior.Rosenberger Collection, University of Chicago; Early Apologistsand Christian Hebraists #13 [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/excat/rosenberger/Emancip.html] ] Scholars have pointed out that part of Addison's book simply repeats material found in the English translation of Johannes Buxtorf's work, The Jewish Synagogue, or an Historical Narration of the State of the Jewes (Synagoga Judaica, London, 1657).University of Pennsylvania Library [http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/exhibit/toc.html] ]
He died in 1703 leaving three sons: poet
Joseph Addison , scholarLancelot Addison , andGulston Addison , who became Governor of Madras.Rev. Addison was buried in
Lichfield Cathedral inStaffordshire .Notes
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.