kingscliffe

Updated: May 26, 2025

From his retirement at Kingscliffe, where he lived a life of untiring benevolence, Law took an active part in the religious controversies of the time; refusing, however, all payment for his publications. He entered the lists against Tindal, Chubb, and Mandeville, against Hoadly, against Warburton, against Wesley.

Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey - The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

He also wrote Legendary Tales of the Highlands, and contributed to scientific journals and magazines. Divine, s. of a grocer at Kingscliffe, Northamptonshire, was ed. at Camb., and in 1727 became tutor to the f. of Edward Gibbon, the historian.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

He retired in 1740 to Kingscliffe, where he had founded a school for 14 girls. Novelist, was a barrister. He wrote several novels, of which one Guy Livingstone had great popularity. On the outbreak of the American Civil War he went to America with the intention of joining the Confederate Army, but was taken prisoner and only released on promising to return to England.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature