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    William Van Mildert (6 November 1765 – 21 February 1836) was the bishop of Durham (1826–1836), and the last to rule the county palatine of Durham. He...
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    University. The college was founded in 1965 and takes its name from William Van Mildert, the last Prince-Bishop to rule the County Palatine of Durham and...
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  • Van Mildert may refer to: Johannes van Mildert (1588–1638), Flemish sculptor William Van Mildert (1765–1836), English bishop Van Mildert College, Durham...
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  • is named in honour of Bishop William Van Mildert, one of the founders of the university. The holder of the Van Mildert chair, which is jointly funded...
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    Centred on Durham Castle on Palace Green, it was founded in 1832 by William van Mildert, Bishop of Durham. As a constituent college of Durham University...
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    Durham until the Bishop William Van Mildert made Bishop Auckland their primary residence. A founder of Durham University, Van Mildert gave the castle as accommodation...
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    Archdeacon Charles Thorp and with the support of the Bishop of Durham, William van Mildert, passed "an Act to enable the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral...
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    a cathedral, although this is speculative. The Elizabethan antiquarian William Camden argued that a temple to the goddess Diana had stood during Roman...
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    William Ralph Inge KCVO FBA (/ˈɪŋ/; 6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954) was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and dean...
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    William de St-Calais (died 2 January 1096) was a medieval Norman monk, abbot of the abbey of Saint-Vincent in Le Mans in Maine, who was nominated by King...
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    Durham castle was donated to the University of Durham by Bishop William Van Mildert and would later become the college. The college did not occupy the...
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    founder of the Cambridge Apostles ‡ Thomas Frederick Tout, historian William Van Mildert, Bishop of Durham; founder of the University of Durham ‡ Sir Sydney...
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  • by William Van Mildert 1812 - William Van Mildert 1814 - Frederick Nolan 1821 - The Connection of Christianity with Human Happiness, by William Harness...
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  • Dean (1807) William Howley, DD, Canon of Christ Church; afterwards Bishop of London, Archbishop of Canterbury (1809) William Van Mildert, DD, Queen's;...
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    the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, destroyed much of the cathedral. King William I (William the Conqueror) donated the stone from the destroyed Palatine Tower...
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    even blamed it for the French Revolution. Barrington's successor, William van Mildert was involved in the creation of Durham University. Durham Castle...
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    Cornplanter, native American (Seneca) chief (b. 1750) February 21 – William Van Mildert, last Prince Bishop of Durham, and founder of Durham University (b...
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  • Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, theologian William Sherlock, (1641–1707) English church leader William Van Mildert, (1765–1836) Bishop of Durham; founder...
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  • as Durham University's colour relates to the key role played by William Van Mildert, the Bishop of Durham, in the foundation of the university (purple...
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    Marchioness of Londonderry and her son George, 1828 Sir John Soane, 1829 William Van Mildert, 1829 Duchess of Richmond, 1829 Portrait of Maria II, 1829. Portrait...
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    student prior to his arrest in 1593 for harbouring a Catholic priest, William Harrington, and died in Newgate Prison of bubonic plague, leading Donne...
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    Tomline William Van Mildert Charles Sumner Edward Copleston Henry Hart Milman Henry Longueville Mansel Richard William Church Robert Gregory William Ralph...
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    flourishing centre of heavy industry. In 1833 the then Bishop of Durham, William Van Mildert (1765 - 1836) gifted five acres and the land of an existing burial...
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    Reginald Heber (1822–?) Edward Maltby (1824–1833) William Van Mildert (1812–1819) Henry Wace William Warburton (1746–?) Derek Watson Hastings Rashdall...
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  • to William Laud and the Caroline Divines, and then on to eighteenth and nineteenth century High Churchmen like Daniel Waterland, William Van Mildert, Harold...
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    Tomline William Van Mildert Charles Sumner Edward Copleston Henry Hart Milman Henry Longueville Mansel Richard William Church Robert Gregory William Ralph...
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    on Ireland. In 1633, Ussher wrote to the new Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, in an effort to gain support for the imposition of recusancy fines...
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    Window of Christ in Majesty (c. 1876). There is also a statue of William Van Mildert (1826–1836), the last bishop with palatine powers, and driving force...
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    Turner (also a trained architect), it contains head sculptures of William Van Mildert, the founder of the university, and Warden Thorp, the first Vice-Chancellor...
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  • William of Sainte-Mère-Église was a medieval Bishop of London. William's family originated from Sainte-Mère-Église, in the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy...
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