1. John Lonsdale was an English clergyman, who was the third Principal of King's College, London, and later served as Bishop of Lichfield.
10 Facts About John Lonsdale
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John Lonsdale was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, and went on to become Principal of King's College, London in 1838 following the death of Hugh James Rose.
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John Lonsdale was educated at Eton under Joseph Goodall, who thought him the best Latin scholar he had ever had.
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John Lonsdale went in 1806 to Cambridge, and became Fellow of King's in 1809.
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In 1839, John Lonsdale was elected Principal of King's College, London: the post on its creation had been offered to him.
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John Lonsdale was unwilling to accept the offer, but on consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London found it had been made on the recommendation of them both.
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John Lonsdale's episcopate was mostly uneventful except as regards church extension, on a large scale.
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John Lonsdale's sympathies were High Church; but he protested against the removal of F D Maurice from his professorship, and condemned the existing law on marriage with a deceased wife's sister, though he did not vote for its repeal.
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John Lonsdale died suddenly at his home in Eccleshall Castle on 19 October 1867 of the rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain.
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John Lonsdale prepared for the press The Four Gospels, with Annotations, with William Hale.