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Richard Willis (1664–1734) was an English bishop. ==Life== Willis was born in Ribbesford, Worcestershire, where his father was a tanner.〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42900〕 He was educated at Bewdley Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1684 and graduated BA in 1688. He became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Willis became a curate at Cheshunt and then, in 1692, lecturer at St Clement, Strand, where he acquired a reputation as a preacher. In 1694 he was chaplain to King William III on a journey to the Netherlands. In 1701 Willis was appointed Dean of Lincoln〔 and in 1714 Bishop of Gloucester. In 1721 he became Bishop of Salisbury and in 1723 Bishop of Winchester. There is a memorial to him in Winchester Cathedral. Willis was Lord High Almoner from 1718 to 1723. He was one of the principal founders of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK).〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50796〕 He gave in 1702 the first of the annual sermons on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). It proposed an influential set of theories about evangelical missionary work in connection with the Anglican church settlement, commercial life and colonization.〔Rowan Strong, ''Anglicanism and the British Empire C.1700-1850'' (2007), p. 41, 64, 67.〕〔Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, ''From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina'' (2006), p. 124.〕 He accused John Locke of “Hobbism” citing a parallel with ''Leviathan''. He attacked deism in general, and John Toland and William Stephens in particular.〔(''Making Authority: belief, conviction and reason in the public sphere in late seventeenth century England'' )〕 He gave a thanksgiving sermon 23 August 1705, for victories of the Duke of Marlborough in the War of the Spanish Succession. Given in St Paul's Cathedral, it was an elaborate effort for a full state occasion, and was published.〔http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/strype/TransformServlet?page=book3_173〕 It attracted also attracted controversy, with John Hughes writing ''A review of the case of Ephraim and Judah, and its application to the case of the church of England and the dissenters'', and Joseph Williamson replying.〔http://198.82.142.160/spenser/BiographyRecord.php?action=GET&bioid=33661〕〔''A vindication of the thanksgiving-sermon of the Reverend Dr. Willis'' (1705)〕 He was also attacked by the Unitarian Thomas Emlyn. He was a Whig in politics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Willis (bishop)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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