John Leng (bishop)

John Leng
Born1665
Died1727
CitizenshipEnglish
Occupation(s)churchman, academic, bishop of Norwich from 1723.

John Leng (1665–1727) was an English churchman and academic, bishop of Norwich from 1723.[1]

Life

He was born at Thornton le Dale, near Pickering, in Yorkshire. He received his early education at St. Paul's School, and obtained an exhibition at Catharine Hall, Cambridge, where he was admitted as a sizar 26 March 1683. He graduated B.A. in 1686. His subsequent degrees were M.A. 1690, B.D. 1698, D.D. 1716.[2]

He was elected fellow of his college 13 September 1688, and subsequently became known as a tutor and Latinist. scholar. At the consecration of the new chapel of his college by Simon Patrick, bishop of Ely, in 1701, he preached the sermon. In 1708 he was presented by his old pupil, Sir Nicholas Carew, to the rectory of Beddington, Surrey, which he held in commendam to his death.

In 1717 and 1718 he delivered the Boyle Lectures, which were published the following year, his subject being The Natural Obligations to believe the Principles of Religion and Divine Revelation. He became chaplain in ordinary to George I, and in 1723 was appointed bishop of Norwich. He was consecrated at Lambeth by Archbishop William Wake on 3 November of the same year. He held the see barely three years, having died in London of small-pox, caught at the coronation of George II, 26 October 1727. He was buried in St. Margaret's, Westminster, where a mural tablet was erected to his memory in the south aisle of the chancel.

Works

In 1695 he published the Plutus and the Nubes of Aristophanes, with a Latin translation, and in 1701 he edited the Cambridge edition of Terence, adding a dissertation on the metres of the author. He also published a revised edition of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation of Cicero's De Officiis.

Leng published fourteen single sermons, preached on public occasions, among them one preached before the Society for the Reformation of Manners at Bow Church, 29 December 1718. His Boyle Lectures went to a second edition.

Family

Leng was twice married. By his first wife he had no children. By his second, Elizabeth, daughter of a Mr. Hawes of Sussex, he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Susanna.

Notes

  1. ^ "John Leng". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Leng, John (LN683J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

References

Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Norwich
1723–1727 		Succeeded by

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