Personal Notes; Wm. nd Mary Qrtly., Vol. 8, No. 4

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Personal Notes

   B. W. Green

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 4.
   (Apr., 1900), pp. 271-272.

                                PERSONAL NOTES.
                       (Communicated by Dr. B. W. Green.)

   Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen, - Whereas the rev. William Dawson, Master of Arts

and sometime fellow of Queen's College, in our University, having been regularly admitted
to that degree in Easter term, 1728, was soon after appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy
and Tutor to the College of Williamsburgh, in virginia, where, having constantly resided
in that


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capacity from the year 1729, he was chosen President of that College about three years
ago, and has since been appointed Commissary of Virginia, and member of the Council or
Higher House of Assemblies in that colony; which several offices requiring his constant
attendance at so very great a distance from hence, will not allow him to perform the
statutable exercises and to proceed in the usual method to the degree of Doctor in
Divinity; and whereas I am informed the University has received ample testimonials of
his sound principles in religion and exemplary behaviour in life, by letters from the
Honourable Sir William Gooch, baronet, the very worthy Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia,
strongly recommending him as deserving of such a mark of our esteem; I do, therefore,

give my consent that the degree of Doctor in Divinity be conferred on him by diploma,
upon payment of the fees for the said degree; and am,
            Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen,
                     Your affectionate friend and servant,
                                                             ARRAN.
   Grosvenor Street, January 31, 1746.
   The diploma was granted on February 16, 1746-'47.
           Notes and Queries, 7th Vol. Ser. V., June 2, 1888, p. 422.

   On May 21, 1778, the degree of B. A. was allowed to Rev. Thomas Gwatkin, of Jesus
College, who had been ordained priest by the Bishop of London in 1767, "and appointed by
him to the Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the College of William
and Mary in Williamsburg, in the province of Virginia, in which office he continued from
the year 1769 to 1775", but had now returned to the University , and proposed to proceed
regularly to the degree of M.A.
           Notes and Queries, 7th Vol. Ser., VI., July 28, 1888, p. 62.

   THE REV. GORONWY OWEN, a clergyman of the Church of England, and the premier poet of
Wales, set sail from Spithead for American in December, 1757.  He was classical master
at William and Mary College, at Williamsburg, Virginia, for three years, and afterward 
the minister of St. Andrews, a parish in Brunswick Co., in the State of Virginia, whence
his last letter is dated July, 1767.
   Mr. Owen died in 1769.
           Notes and Queries, 7th Vol., Ser. V., p. 267, p. 435.