WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO

WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO
   man of letters of an unstable creed, born in Seville, of Irish parentage; first ordained a priest; left the Catholic Church, and took orders in the Church of England; left the English, became a Unitarian, and settled to miscellaneous literary work; left an autobiography which reveals an honest quest of light, but to the last in doubt; he lives in literature by a sonnet "Night and Death" (1775-1841).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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