13 Facts About Charles Wellbeloved

Charles Wellbeloved was an English Unitarian divine and archaeologist.

Charles Wellbeloved got the best part of his early education from a clergyman named Delafosse at Richmond.

Charles Wellbeloved broke with the Priestley school, rejecting a general resurrection and fixing the last judgment at death.

On Walker's resignation the trustees proposed to remove the institution to York if Charles Wellbeloved would become its director.

Charles Wellbeloved agreed, and from September 1803 to June 1840 the institution was known as Manchester College, York, which eventually became Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

For thirty-seven years Charles Wellbeloved discharged the duties of the college's divinity chair in a spirit described by Dr James Martineau, his pupil, as "candid and catholic, simple and thorough".

Charles Wellbeloved followed the method which Richard Watson had introduced at Cambridge, discarding systematic theology and substituting biblical exegesis.

Charles Wellbeloved retained his connection with his chapel until his death, officiating occasionally until 1853, having as assistants John Wright and Henry Vaughan Palmer.

Charles Wellbeloved died at his residence, Monkgate, York, on 29 August 1858, and was buried in the graveyard of St Saviourgate Chapel; a memorial tablet is in the chapel.

Charles Wellbeloved's portrait, painted in 1826 by James Lonsdale, was engraved by Samuel Cousins.

Charles Wellbeloved was the Honorary Curator of Antiquities for the Yorkshire Philosophical Society from 1823 until his death in 1858, overseeing the exhibition and interpretation of antiquities in the Yorkshire Museum from its opening in 1830.

Proposals for editing a family bible were made to Charles Wellbeloved by David Eaton, then a bookseller in Holborn in succession to William Vidler.

Charles Wellbeloved was one of the founders of the York Subscription Library, the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and the York Institute, and devoted much time to the archaeology of York.