Carwithen, J B S

Carwithen, J. B. S., a minister of the Church of England, was born in 1781. , Having been ordained deacon in 1803 and priest in 1805, he was in 1810 appointed perpetual curate of Sandhurst, Berks, and in 1814 perpetual curate of Frimley, Hants. He died at Sandhurst vicarage in 1832. He published A View of the Brahminical Religion in its Confirmation of the Truth of Sacred History, in a Series of Discourses preached in 1809 (Lond. 1810, 8vo): — History of the Church of England, parts 1 and 2 (2d ed., with a notice of the author by W. R. Browell, A.D., Oxf. 1849, 2 vols. 12mo): — History of the Church from the Fourth to the Twelfth Century (with Rev. A. Lyall, from Encyclop. Metropol. Lond. 1856, 12mo). — Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. 1:589; British Critic, 7:45.