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== Parish History == | |||
Durham College is an extra parochial place within the city of Durham. It ceased to be a '''parish''', is still recognised as separate, the inhabitants having no parochial rights in any other church, and are without a church. It is | Durham College is an extra parochial place within the city of Durham. It ceased to be a '''parish''', is still recognised as separate, the inhabitants having no parochial rights in any other church, and are without a church. It is necessary to search other parishes in the city for events. The university was founded in connexion with the cathedral, by the late Bishop Van Mildert and the Dean and Chapter that a professorship of Hebrew and the oriental languages should then be founded, and that the six fellowships founded by the Dean and Chapter, in 1840, should be increased to twenty-four; towards the maintenance of which, certain estates were allotted to the university.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A.,[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50932#s2 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''] (1848), pp. 110-121.</ref> | ||
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