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"Robert Marshall (c.1695-1774) was an Irish judge; his is remembered chiefly as co-executor and legatee of Esther Vanhomrigh, the beloved "Vanessa" of Jonathan Swift, although he does not seem to have been a close friend of hers.Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol. 2 Personal life He was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary, son of John Marshall. He was educated at Kilkenny College, entered Middle Temple in 1718 and was called to the Irish Bar in 1723. In 1741 he married a great heiress, Mary Wooley of East Sheen, who is said to have brought him a dowry of £30,000. She died childless in 1743. He outlived her by thirty years and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford. Legal and political career He was appointed Third Serjeant in 1738 and Second Serjeant in 1741. As a barrister he made his reputation in the celebrated Annesley case, in which James Annesley claimed to be the rightful Earl of Anglesey. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Clonmel and was a reliable Government supporter; he was also for a time Recorder of Clonmel. He became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) in 1754 and retired in 1766. Vanessa Vanessa - an imagined likeness by John Everett Millais; no true likeness of her survives. In 1723 the warm friendship between Jonathan Swift and Esther Vanhomrigh, for whom he created the name Vanessa, ended in a violent quarrel about another woman whom he had loved for many years, Esther Johnson (Stella); Swift may secretly have married Stella in 1716, although the truth of the matter is impossible to determine. The quarrel arose when Vanessa apparently asked Swift not to see Stella again, and he refused. Vanessa, who was seriously ill with tuberculosis and died a few months later, revoked the will she had made in Swift's favour and made a new will, dividing her estate between Marshall and George Berkeley, later to be a celebrated philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, and appointing them as her joint executors. Her choice of legatee caused a good deal of surprise since it does not seem that she knew either man well. In the event much of the estate was dissipated in a lawsuit. There is a tradition that Marshall and Berkeley disobeyed a provision in the will that they publish all of Swift's correspondence with Vanessa, but in fact no such provision seems to have existed. Marshall did preserve copies of the correspondence. References Category:1695 births Category:1774 deaths Category:People from Clonmel Category:People educated at Kilkenny College Category:Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Tipperary constituencies Category:Members of the Middle Temple Category:Justices of the Irish Common Pleas Category:Irish MPs 1727–1760 Category:Serjeants-at-law (Ireland) "
"Joseph Sortain (1809–1860) was a British nonconformist minister, an evangelical Independent, philosophy tutor at Cheshunt College, and biographer of Francis Bacon. A reputed preacher of his time, he was called "the Dickens of the pulpit" by John Ross Dix. Joseph Sortain, engraving by Henry Edward Dawe Life He was born in Clifton, Bristol; his father was a baker of Huguenot descent.Proceedings of the Huguenot Society Vol XVI Issue_41940-1 (PDF) at p. 427 His parents were in the congregation of James Sherman.http://dissacad.english.qmul.ac.uk Sortain, Joseph (c.1809-c.1860). This chapel was in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion derived from the Calvinistic Methodists. In 1823 the congregation came under William Lucy, and shortly migrated to the Lodge Street Chapel. Sortain attended the Bristol Baptist Academy when still young (around 1824); at this period he won an essay prize, in a competition for which Lucy was his sponsor, on the topic Christ's Mission. Reading Micaiah Towgood dissuaded him from going to the University of Cambridge. He then studied at Cheshunt College, and Trinity College, Dublin. He returned to Cheshunt College as a tutor, from 1838 to 1850. Under the initial arrangement he taught mathematics, logic, and belles lettres, for two periods of six weeks in a year.W. J. Mander, Alan P. F. Sell, Gavin Budge (editors), The Dictionary of Nineteenth-century British Philosophers, Volume 2 (2002), p. 1045. From 1832 Sortain was the Countess of Huntingdon's preacher at her North Street Chapel in Brighton, where he was admired as an orator, and noted for not exceeding 30 minutes. He held to the dissenting position of his family, though he was known not to differ much from Anglican theological positions. Henry Crabb Robinson appreciated Sortain as a preacher, while thinking Frederick William Robertson ("Robertson of Brighton") would rival him. The North Street Chapel in Brighton Sortain died on 16 July 1860. His funeral sermon was given by his friend Richard Alliott at the North Street Chapel. His reputation lapsed, and he could be called a "forgotten Bristol celebrity" by 1907.Stanley Peerman Hutton, Bristol and its Famous Associations (1907), p. 165; archive.org. Works Sortain was a reviewer during the mid-1830s. He obtained work foe the High Church British Critic, through contacts with the Rev. Richard Harvey of Hornsey, and James Shergold Boone. He wrote also for the Edinburgh Review, at the suggestion of William Empson. These articles of the mid-1830s were anonymous, but attributions to Sortain have been made, for topics such as Brougham on natural theology, Coleridge, Charles Lyell on geology, and Mary Somerville's Connection of the Physical Sciences in the British Critic.John Taylor, Notes on Bristol Huguenots, Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, Vol. III Issue 3 (PDF), p. 373. In the Edinburgh Review topics were Richard Baxter, Thomas Lathbury's History of English Episcopacy, and Jeremy Bentham's Deontology (he thought Bentham's works brought on "mental nausea"). Harvey, however, seemed to find Sortain's oratory incomprehensible. Sortain wrote A Lecture Introductory to the Study of Philosophy (1839) as a Cheshunt College tutor. He published Romanism and Anglo-Catholicism (1841); at this time he was preaching on Antichrist. The Eclectic Review noticed this work with one by Charles Pettit McIlvaine, as anti-Tractarian, though giving it little space, and regretting the "declamatory" style, while praising the content. His Life of Francis, Lord Bacon was published by the Religious Tract Society in 1851. Sortain wrote novels, as well as theological and philosophical works: *Hildebrand and the Excommunicated Emperor (1852) *Count Arensberg; or, The days of Martin Luther (1853). Family Sortain married Bridget Margaret, daughter of Sir Patrick Macgregor, 1st Baronet.thepeerage.com, Bridget Margaret Macgregor. She published Memorials of the Rev. Joseph Sortain in 1861. Notes Further reading *Benjamin Samuel Hollis (1861), Sortain of Brighton; a Review of His Life and Ministry External links *A Lecture introductory to the Study of Philosophy, online text. Category:1809 births Category:1860 deaths Category:English Methodists Category:English male novelists Category:19th- century English novelists Category:19th-century British male writers "
"Tryggve Mettinger (born 1940 in Helsingborg)https://sots1917.org/about-the- society/honorary-members/ is a retired professor of Hebrew Bible, at Lund University, Sweden, where he taught from 1978 to 2003.Bio of Mettinger Life and work Between 1960 and 1978, Mettinger studied various theological and philological subjects such as Semitics, Egyptology and Assyriology, as well as Comparative Literature, at the Universities of Lund and Copenhagen, after which he earned his doctorate in 1971, worked as docent (Reader) of Old Testament exegesis and subsequently was appointed professor at Lund University, a capacity in which he served until his retirement in 2003. He has had visiting professor positions in the U.S., Israel, the Netherlands, and South Africa. He was awarded the Thuréus prize (humanities) 2008 by the Kungl. Vetenskaps-Societeten in Uppsala. Between 1978 and 2003, he was one of the editors of the monograph series Coniectanea Biblica, Old Testament Series. Mettinger served as an expert consultant for the official Swedish Bible translation committee, whose work led to the creation of the Bibel 2000 translation. He is a member of various learned societies, such as the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm and the (British) Society for Old Testament Study (honorary member). He has also been a guest lecturer at many universities and delivered papers at many conferences devoted to Old Testament study, Assyriology and Comparative Religion. He has described his epistemological attitude towards studying religious texts using the following words: "I try to draw a line [of demarcation] between what I believe I know as a scholar and what I know I believe as a Christian."http://tryggvemettinger.com/about.html In 2011, the Festschrift Enigmas and Images was published in his honor. That volume also includes an almost complete bibliography of Mettinger's publications up to that point. Previously, another Festschrift dedicated to him was also published as a volume of Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok.http://exegetiskasallskapet.se/sv/SEA/arkiv/65-2000.html In 2015, a volume collecting a number of his scholarly essays was published by Eisenbrauns under the title Reports from a Scholar's Life; the book also includes an English language version of Mettinger's farewell lecture when leaving his professorship at Lund University (a lecture that has given the book its title) — summarizing much of his scholarly career. The lecture can also be read online.http://www.tryggvemettinger.com/pdf/Trygger_N.D._Mettinger____Report_from_a_scholars_life.pdf Central points of scholarship Among the central points of his scholarly work have been such subjects as Israelite aniconic cult (cult without images), put in the context of a wider study of Ancient Near Eastern religion (the monograph No Graven Image?, in which he argued that the official Jerusalem cult was indeed aniconic in nature), Israelite notions of divinity as reflected in various divine names (In Search of God, subsequently translated into many languages), the state officialdom of the Solomonic era (his doctoral dissertation, Solomonic State Officials), and the question of "Dying and rising gods" in the Ancient Near East (in the book "The Riddle of Resurrection', in which he defended the concept that there were, indeed, prevalent images of divine beings believed to die and return to life again). Another of his studies is The Dethronement of Sabaoth, which deals with the theologies of the Babylonian Exile, as opposed and related to that of the monarchical era - the Babylonian exile creating a cognitive dissonance in the theological traditions connected with the presence of YHWH in the Jerusalem temple, which, according to Mettinger, led to the rise of theologies focused on YHWH's "name" or "glory".http://tryggvemettinger.com/research.html His monograph A Farewell to the Servant Songs criticized the notion of a separate collection of "Servant Songs" in the text of Deutero-Isaiah. Mettinger has worked extensively with extra-biblical material from the Ancient Near East (e.g. Ugaritic, Akkadian). The latter is evident in his study of the Eden narrative (2007), which includes not only comparisons with the Akkadian Adapa and Gilgamesh stories but also uses narratological and literary methods. He has also published Swedish language studies on the biblical creation stories in relation to modern astrophysics (2011) as well as an exposition on the love poetry of Song of Songs (2016), the latter of which uses literary perspectives to elucidate the import of the biblical book. Mettinger has often applied cultural/literary and religio-historical comparison with various Ancient Near Eastern cultures in his exegetical work, as well as perspectives from iconography and archaeology. Bibliography * Solomonic State Officials. A Study of the Civil Government Officials of the Israelite Monarchy (1971) * King and Messiah. The Civil and Sacral Legitimation of the Israelite Kings(1976) * The Dethronement of Sabaoth: Studies in the Shem and Kabod Theologies by Tryggve Mettinger (1982) * A Farewell to the Servant Songs. A Critical Examination of an Exegetical Axiom (1983) * Eva och revbenet. Sex uppsatser om Gamla Testamentet * No Graven Image? Israelite Aniconism in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context (1995) * The riddle of resurrection by Tryggve N. D. Mettinger (2001) * In Search of God: The Meaning and Message of the Everlasting Names by Tryggve Mettinger, translated by Frederick H. Cryer (Jul 15, 2005) * The Eden Narrative: A literary and religio-historical study of Genesis 2-3, Winona Lake, IN (2007) * I begynnelsen. Hur skall vi förstå Bibelns tre första kapitel? Aspekter från astrofysik och exegetik(2011) * Reports from a Scholar’s Life. Select Papers on the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Andrew Knapp (2015; collected essays). * Sångernas Sång. En mästares dikt om kärleken (2016) Festschrift: Göran Eidevall and Blazenka Scheuer (ed.), Enigmas and Images. Studies in Honor of Tryggve N.D. Mettinger (2011) External link: Mettinger's website - www.tryggvemettinger.com Sources External links * Official website Category:Living people Category:Lund University faculty Category:Swedish biblical scholars Category:1940 births "