Gorham

Gorham, George Cornelius, was born in 1787, and graduated at Queen's College, Cambridge, where he became fellow and tutor. He wrote in early life several tractates on Public Worship, on the impropriety of mixing the apocryphal books with the canoniceel Scriptures, etc., and in 1848 he was presented to the living of Brampton-Speke, Devon. The Bishop of Exeter (Dr. Pliillpotts) refused to institute him on the ground that he denied the doctrine of baptismal regeneration. Mr. Gorham appealed to the Privy Council, and a decision was given to the effect that his views did not justify exclusion from his benefice. The bishop declined to obey, and after two further suits Mr. Gorham was instituted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He died in 1857.