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He was one of the best scholars of his day, and attained to the headship of his old school and college in 1753 and 1767 respectively. He held from time to time a number of livings, and in 1771 was made bishop of Chester and tutor to George prince of Wales. In 1776 he became Archbishop of York, and also lord high almoner and privy councillor.

He was a firececritic of pamphleteer Richard Price concerning the American rebellion. He was for some time a close friend of Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke ( January 12, 1729— July 9, 1797) was an Irish philosopher, Whig politician and statesman, remembered principally for his criticism of the French Revolution and his discussion of "the sublime. He was a founder of the Annual Register and is re, but his strong championship of Warren HastingsWarren Hastings ( December 6 1732 August 22 1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1786. He was famously impeached in the 1780s for corruption. Warren Hastings was born December 6 1732 at Churchill, Oxfordshire. He joined the caused a breach. He was accused by Lord ChathamThe Earl of Chatham was a peerage given to William Pitt the Elder in 1766, after which he became Lord Privy Seal. Its first subsidiary title was Viscount Pitt ( 1766); after the inheritance of the earldom by John Pitt, he additionally inherited the title of preaching pernicious doctrines, and was a victim of the Gordon riotsThe Gordon riots were a Protestant religious uprising against the Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1778, which was intended to emancipate the Roman Catholics in England at the time. Led by Lord George Gordon, a crowd of c. 50,000 marched on the Houses of Parlia in 1780Events January 16 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent February, Armed Neutrality of the North alliance formed between Denmark, Sweden, and Russia. March 26 The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor the first Sunday newspaper in Britain May.