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    Orator, Thomas Kingsmill, gave a very long historical speech. Sir Isaac Wake addressed King James I similarly in 1605. At the University of Cambridge...
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  • W. K. C. Guthrie (category Cambridge University Orators)
    temporary rank of major. Returning to Cambridge after the war, Guthrie was much in demand in his capacity as Orator, called upon to deliver Latin encomia...
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  • Greek: Ἀντιφῶν ὁ Ῥαμνούσιος; 480–411 BC) was the earliest of the ten Attic orators, and an important figure in fifth-century Athenian political and intellectual...
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    George Herbert (category Cambridge University Orators)
    Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1609. He went there with the intention of becoming a priest, but he became the University's Public Orator and attracted the...
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    John Sandys (classicist) (category Cambridge University Orators)
    the Latin speeches and letters that he gave as a public orator at the University of Cambridge from 1876 to 1909. He was also supervising editor of A Companion...
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    Terrot R. Glover (category Cambridge University Orators)
    The Jesus of History and Poets and Puritans. He was Public Orator of Cambridge University between 1920 and 1939, until he was succeeded by W. K. C. Guthrie...
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    Orator wear the academic dress appropriate to their degree. Groves, Nicholas (2014). "The Academic Robes of Graduates of the University of Cambridge from...
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  • William George Clark (category Cambridge University Orators)
    College, Cambridge, where he graduated in classics and won a Browne medal and was subsequently elected Fellow. In 1857 he was appointed Public Orator. He travelled...
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    Richard Claverhouse Jebb (category Cambridge University Orators)
    tutor of his college in 1863. From 1869 to 1875, he was public orator of Cambridge University. On 18 August 1874, Jebb married Caroline Lane Reynolds, born...
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    Christopher Wordsworth (category Cambridge University Orators)
    which is "Wordsworth's" Greece (1839). In 1836 he became Public Orator at Cambridge, and in the same year was appointed Headmaster of Harrow, a post...
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  • William Barford (category Cambridge University Orators)
    in the Sophs' school, was proctor in 1761, and from 1762 to 1768 Public Orator, only resigning the post to stand for the Greek professorship, which he...
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  • Nathan MacDonald (category Cambridge University Orators)
    of the Old Testament at Cambridge University as well as Fellow and College Lecturer in theology at St John's College, Cambridge. Much of his work has concentrated...
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    Richard Beadon (category Cambridge University Orators)
    21 April 1824) was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge 1781–1789 and later Vice-Chancellor of the University, Bishop of Gloucester and Bishop of Bath and...
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  • Ralph Widdrington (academic) (category Cambridge University Orators)
    Ralph Widdrington (died 1688) was Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University. He was a member of a junior branch of an ancient Northumbrian family...
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  • Richard Croke (category Cambridge University Orators)
    at Cambridge. It had been in abeyance since Erasmus's time (1511–1513), and he was Cambridge's second lecturer in Greek. He became Public Orator at Cambridge...
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    (3 August 1692 – 13 October 1756), English clergyman, commonly known as 'Orator Henley', was a preacher known for showmanship and eccentricity. The son...
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  • James Diggle (category Cambridge University Orators)
    retired in 2011. Diggle also served as Public Orator between 1982 and 1993. He is editor of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon, published in 2021. In 1985, Diggle...
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  • James Tunstall (category Cambridge University Orators)
    post of Public Orator at Cambridge, polling 160 votes against 137 recorded for Philip Yonge, and held it though absent from the university, until 1746,...
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    John Becon (category Cambridge University Orators)
    principal lecturer of the college. In July 1571 he was elected Public Orator of the university, and he served the office of proctor for the year 1571–2. While...
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    William Lort Mansel (category Cambridge University Orators)
    to his election as Public Orator of Cambridge, 1788–1798. Appointed Master of Trinity in 1798, Mansel served as University Vice-Chancellor 1799–1800....
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