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Excerpt from The Descendants of Richard Kimber: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Richard Kimber, of Grove, Near Wantage, Berkshire, England
IV elizabeth unmarried175 5, and was buried in the same place. Isaaokimber was a Dissenting divine, born at Wantage, in Berkshire, Dec. 1, 1692, and was educated at a private grammar school in Wantage, under the Rev. Mr. Sloper, an excellent scholar, who was also tutor to drfj'oseph Butler, * Bishop of Durham. At this school Mr. Kimber made considera ble progress in Greek and Latin, after which, turning his thoughts to the ministry, he went to London to complete his knowledge Of the languages under Professor Ward, of Gresham College, and also to attend the dissenting academy under Rev. John Eames. For some time after he was admitted into the m1n1stry he had but little encouragement, and having married, he found it necessary to employ his pen for a subsistence. One of his first produc tions was 'the Life of Oliver Cromwell', 8vo, and soon after he was concerned with Messrs. Bailey, Hodges and Ridpath in compiling a 'history of England, ' 4 vols., 8 vo., the third and fourth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
