WILLIAM, Archbishop of Armagh, a learned divine, was born in Bedfordshire in 1729. Having entered the university of Oxford, he was first a student of Pembroke College, and afterwards a fellow and tutor of Hertford College. His rise to honour and preferment was sudden and rapid. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him in 1765; in the same year he became chaplain to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland; and in 1766 he was promoted to the bishopric of Dromore. All the while Newcome was closely directing his attention to biblical criticism, and was carefully maturing his views preparatory to publishing them. At length the results of his studies began to appear in quick succession. He published, among other works, *The Harmony of the Gospels*, in 1778; *The Duration of our Lord's Ministry particularly considered*, in 1780; *Observations on our Lord's Conduct as a Divine Instructor*, in 1782; *An Historical View of the English Biblical Translations*, in 1792; and *An Attempt towards revising our English Translation of the Greek Scriptures*, in 1796. Meanwhile, the author, after having been successively translated to the sees of Ossory and Waterford, had been installed in the archbishopric of Armagh in 1795. His death took place in 1800.

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