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Paul's as well as Bishop of Bristol, and, before he became a bishop, held a living in the City, a Prebend of Westminster, the Precentorship of York, the Lectureship of St. George's, Hanover Square, and "the genteel office of Sub-Almoner." William Van Mildert, afterwards Bishop of Durham, was Rector of St.
Canon Edgar Sheppard, D.D., Sub-Dean of His Majesty's Chapels Royal, Deputy Clerk of the Closet, and Sub-Almoner to the King." The Grand Duke swiftly added that eminent cleric to the list. "Did you put that paper on this looking-glass?" he shouted. "I did not put that paper on that looking-glass," replied Clarence precisely.
I wish they had not appeared, and that Dr. Johnson had not been provoked by them to express himself, not in respectful terms, of a Prelate, whose labours were certainly of considerable advantage both to literature and religion. Newton was born Jan. 1, 1704, and was made Bishop in 1761. George's, Hanover Square, and the genteel office of sub-almoner. He died in 1781.
A diurnal-maker is the sub-almoner of history, Queen Mab's register, one whom, by the same figure that a north country pedlar is a merchantman, you may style an author. It is like overreach of language, when every thin tinder-cloaked quack must be called a doctor; when a clumsy cobbler usurps the attribute of our English peers, and is vamped a translator.
Hubert Wales had just published a novel so fruity in theme and treatment that it had been publicly denounced from the pulpit by no less a person than the Rev. Canon Edgar Sheppard, D.D., Sub-Dean of His Majesty's Chapels Royal, Deputy Clerk of the Closet and Sub-Almoner to the King.
George's, Hanover Square, and the genteel office of sub-almoner. On another occasion we find him conjuring his friend Bishop Pearce, of Rochester, not to resign the deanery of Westminster.
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