John Brewer, D.D. (1744–1822), was an English

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. Brewer, who assumed in religion the Christian name of Bede, was born in 1744. In 1776 he was appointed to the mission at

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. He built a new chapel in St. James's Parade in that city, and it was to have been opened on 11 June 1780, but the delegates from

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's 'No Popery' association so inflamed the fanaticism of the mob that on 9 June the edifice was demolished, as well as the presbytery in Bell-tree Lane. The registers, diocesan archives, and Bishop Walmesley's library and manuscripts perished in the flames; and Dr. Brewer had a narrow escape from the fury of the rioters. The ringleader was tried and executed, and Dr. Brewer recovered £3,736 damages from the hundred of Bath. In 1781 the duties of president of his brethren called Dr. Brewer away from Bath. Subsequently

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, near

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, became his principal place of residence, and there he died on 18 April 1822. He brought out the second edition of the Abbé Luke Joseph Hooke's ' Religio Naturalis et Revelata,' 3 vols., Paris, 1774, 8vo, to which he added several dissertations.

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