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2 unusual facts about Henry Majendie


Henry Majendie

He was educated at Charterhouse and at Christ's College, Cambridge where he graduated B.A. in 1776; though he did not have an honours degree, he was made Fellow in the same year, in the vacancy caused by the departure of William Paley.

He was canon of Windsor from 1785 to 1798, becoming vicar of Nether Stowey, Somerset in 1790 and proceeding D.D. in 1791; while in Somerset he befriended Thomas Poole, the supporter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.



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