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Joseph Blanco White

1775–1841

Spanish-born theological writer. Ordained priest, 1798. Left for England in 1810, as the French advanced into Spain. Published a monthly periodical called El Español, 1810–14. Ordained in the Anglican Church, 1814. Formed a close friendship with Richard Whately at Oxford, joining him in Dublin in 1832.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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