Thomas Leland

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(b. 1722, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland – d. 1785, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland )

Gender: M

Thomas Leland (1722-1785) was an Irish historian and translator. He was born in Dublin and became Professor of Oratory at Trinity College in 1763. He translated the Orations of Demosthenes (1754-1761), and in 1758 published a life of Philip of Macedon. He was ordained a priest in the Church of Ireland in 1748. In 1764 he published A Dissertation on the Principles of Human Eloquence, which included criticisms of Bishop Warburton’s Discourse on Grace, in which he had made an attack on Methodism.

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