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John Randolph (6
July 1749 – 28 July 1813) was a British scholar, teacher, and cleric who rose to
become Bishop of London. He was
born in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, the son of Thomas Randolph, President
of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He
was awarded BA in 1771, MA in 1774 and BD in 1782. He was associated with Oxford University as
a resident and instructor from 1779 to 1783. In 1776 he was made Professor of Poetry, in
1782 Regius Professor of Greek and
in 1783 Regius Professor of
Divinity. In 1799, Randolph was named the Bishop of Oxford, and in 1807 was translated to the see of
the Bishop of Bangor. He retained
the post of Regius professor until his move to Bangor. Randolph was not particularly liberal. In debating the
expansion of free schools, he noted that educating the poor would "...puff
up their tender minds or entice them into a way of life of no benefit to the
publick and ensnaring to themselves. On 12 June 1809, he was made the Bishop of London, and ex officio a member of
the Privy
Council of the United Kingdom. In December 1811, he was elected
a Fellow of the Royal
Society. He died in office in 1813 and was buried in Fulham
churchyard. He had married Jane, daughter of Thomas Lambard of Sevenoaks, Kent
in 1785; they had six children.
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