Edward Nares

(1762-03-26)26 March 1762

London, England

23 July 1841(1841-07-23) (aged 79)

Biddenden, Kent, England

Biddenden parish church

British

Westminster School

Christ Church, Oxford

Historian and theologian

Regius Professor of Modern History

1813–1841

Henry Beeke

Thomas Arnold

Lady Charlotte Spencer

Life[edit]

He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and in 1813, he became Regius Professor of Modern History. He was curate of St Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, and then rector of Biddenden from 1798,[1] of New Church, Romney from 1827.[2]


He was Bampton Lecturer in 1805.[3] Orthodox on the Biblical account, he was speculative on the issue of the plurality of worlds;[4] he wrote an 1803 pamphlet on the topic.[5]


He wrote for the Anti-Jacobin.[6] His novel Think's-I-to-Myself. A serio-ludicro, tragico-comico tale, written by Think's-I-to-Myself Who? (1811) caused a stir when it appeared and ran into eight editions by 1812.[7]

Family[edit]

His father was Sir George Nares. He married Lady Charlotte Spencer, daughter of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (an elopement).

Sermons Composed for Country Congregations (1803)

View of the Evidences of Christianity at the End of the Pretended Age of Reason (1805 )

Bampton Lectures

Thinks I to Myself (1811)

I Says, Says I; A Novel By Thinks-I-To-Myself (1812)

Remarks on the Version of the New Testament Edited by the Unitarians

Heraldic Anomalies ; or, rank confusion in our orders of precedence. With disquisitions, moral, philosophical, and historical, on all the existing orders of society. By it matters not Who (1823)

Elements of General History Ancient and Modern (1825)

Memoirs of the Life and Administration of the Right Honourable (1828) three volumes[8]

William Cecil, Lord Burghley

(1834)

Man, as known to us theologically and geologically

The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by , 1849 revision

Gilbert Burnet

White, George Cecil A Versatile Professor: Reminiscences of the Rev. Edward Nares (1903)

Barber, Madeline J. A Man of Many Parts. Professor or Bishop? The Life of Edward Nares 1762-1841 (2009)

Biography on Nares Genealogy Page

Text of Thinks-I-to-Myself on GoogleBooks