The Life of Dr. John Barwick, Dean of St. Paul's (Classic Reprint)

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The Life of Dr. John Barwick, Dean of St. Paul's (Classic Reprint) is written by Peter Barwick and published by Forgotten Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 133471908X (ISBN 10) and 9781334719080 (ISBN 13).

Excerpt from The Life of Dr. John Barwick, Dean of St. Paul's And so notably were his energies devoted to this one object, that he afterwards refused a bishopric lest it should be said that he had fought for the Episcopate in the hope of entering its ranks. Had he been made a bishop, his name would probably have been more widely known both in civil and ecclesiastical history, for he possessed administrative capacity that left its mark in every office he held. At Durham, where he remained rather less than a year, he did much to renovate the fabric and restore the services, and for this cause he was summoned to London to undertake, as Dean of St. Paul's, a task of far greater difficulty and of much less emolument, but which he discharged with equal zeal during the short remainder of his life. It has been frequently stated that Lord Clarendon was greatly assisted by Barwick in compiling his History of the Rebellion there is, however, no evidence of direct assistance, and the statement was doubtless made on the inference that the Chancellor must have drawn largely on the letters he received from Barwick between and 1660. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.