NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Watson, Richard, 1737-1816 NRA: Watson Richard (1737-1816) Bishop of Llandaff DNB: Watson, Richard (1737-1816), bishop of Llandaff LBT ID: RiWatso1816 VIAF ID: 22173223 LOC ID: n50034924 | B/BAP: 1737-08 DIED: 1816-07-04 |
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Regius Professor of Divinity, Trinity College, Cambridge and bishop of Llandaff (1782);
he published Apology for Christianity (1776) in response to Gibbon,
and Apology for the Bible (1796) in response to Paine. | |