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8vo ; 2d ed. with an appendix on Christ's divinity, 1802, 12mo) : — On Bubylon (1805, 12mo) : — Case of Saul {IS07, V2mo):^ Jerusalem (1808, 8vo), See Hoare, Memoirs ami Correspondence of Granville Sharp (1820, 4to: 2d ed. 1828, 2 vols. 8vo) ; Stuart, Memoirs oj' Gran- ville Sharp (N. Y. 1830, 12mo).
Sharp, James, archbishop of St. Andrew's, was the son ot William Sharp, sheritf-clerk ot Hatitt'shire, and was Ijorn in the castle of Banff', May, 1018. He was educated for the Church at the University of Aber- deen, but on account of the Scottish Covenant retired to England in 1038. Returning to Scotland, he was appointed professor of philosophy at St. Andrew's, through the influence of the earl of Kothes, and soon after minister of Crall. In KijO he was chosen by the moderate party in the Church to plead their cause be- fore the Protector against the Kev. James Guthrie, a leader of the extreme section (the Protestors, or Kemon- strators). Upon the eve of the Restoration Sharp was appointed by the moderate party to act as its represent- ative in the negotiations opened up with Monk and the king. In this matter he is believed to have acted with perfidy, receiving as a compensation, after the overthrow of Presbyterian government by Parliament, the archbishopric of St. Andrew's, to which he was for- mally consecrated at London by the bishop of London and tliree other prelates. His government of the Scot- tish Church was tyrannical and oppressive, and, in con- sequence, he became an object of hatred and contempt. He had a servant, one Carmichael,who by his cruelty had rendered himself particularly obnoxious to the Presby- terians. Nine men formed the resolution of waylaying the servant in Magus Muir, about three miles from St. Andrew's. While they were there waiting. Sharp ap- peared in a coach with his daughter, and was imme- diately despatched despite her tears and entreaties, May 3, 1079. In defence of Sharp, the utmost that can be said is that he was simply an ambitious ec- clesiastic who had no belief in the "divine right" of Presb\'tery, and who thought that if England were re- solved to remain Episcopalian it would be very much better if Scotland would adopt the same form of Church government.
Sharp, John, D.D., an English prelate, was born at Bradlord, Yorksliire, 1044. He was admitted to Christ College, Cambridge, from which he graduated in December, 1003. In 1007 he took the degree of JI.A., was ordained both deacon and jiriest, and became do- mestic chaplain to Sir Heneage Finch, through whose influence he was appointed, in 1072, archdeacon of Berkshire. Three years later he was preferred to a prebend of Norwich, to the rectory of St. Bartholo- mew's, Royal Exchange, London, and to tlic rectory of St. (iiies's in the Fields. In 107'J he took the degree of D.IJ. and accepted the lectureship at St. Lawrence Jury, which he resigned in 1083. He was promoted by Sir H. Finch to the deanery of Norwich in 1081. Because of the firm position he took. May 2, 1080, against poperj', he was suspended, but was reinstated in January, 1087. He was installed dean of Canterbury, Nov. 25, 1089, and was consecrated archbishop of York, July 5, 1091. On the accession of queen Anne, Mr. Sharp became a member of her privy council and her lord almoner. He died at Batli, Feb. 2, 1714. Bishop Sharp was a man of amiable disposition and unshaken integrity, a faithful and vigilant governor. He pub- lished a number of sejiarate sermons which were col- lected into 7 vols. 8vo, 1709; also 1715, 1728, 1729, 1735, 1749, and in 7 vols. 12mo in 1754 and 1750. Tliey were republished under title of Works (Oxford, 1829, 5 vols. 8vo). See his Life, by Tliomas Sharp, D.U. (Lond. 1825, 2 vols. 8vo).
Sharp, John M'Clure, a minister of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, was born in Rush County, Ind., 1825, and united with the Church in 1841. He re- ceived license to preach in 1854, and was admitted into
the South-eastern Indiana Conference in 1800. In 1805 he was obliged to retire from the work, and Sept. 15, 1800, he died. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1800, p. 204.
Sharp, Lionel, D.D., an English clergyman, wa8 chaplain to Henry, Prince of Wales; also rector of Mal- pas, minister of Tiverton, and in 1005 archdeacon of Berks. He died in KJoO. His published works are, Oratio f\inehris in Hon. lien. Wall. Principis (Lond. 1012, 4to) : — Novum Fidei Sipnholum, site de Xovis (1012, 4to) ; Speculum Papa-, etc. (1012, 4to) ; Nos. 2 and 3 were translated into English and published under the title of A Lookhuj-fjlass for the Pope (1023, 4to). He also published a Sermon (1003, 8vo) : — and other sermons. See Bliss's Wood's Fasti Oxon. i, 385 ; also Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthor's, s. v.
Sharp, Samuel M., a missionary of the Presby- terian Church, was born in West Middletown, Pa., Nov. 23, 1834. He received a thorough Christian training at the hands of his parents, graduated at Jefferson Col- lege, Pa., in 1855, and at the Western Theological Sem- inary at Allegheny City, Pa., in 1858, was licensed and ordained as an evangelist in the spring of the same year, and sailed t'or Bogota, South America, June 18, 1858. Arriving there Jidy 20, he at once commenced his great life-work. His wife (being the daughter of Rev. Jesse M. Jamieson, one of the missionaries to In- dia) w-as his helpmeet and adviser, and their prospects for eminent usefulness were indeed bright; but in tlie midst of their labors he was taken ill with fever, and died at the mission-house in Bogota, Oct. 30, 1800. Mr. Sharp was a good man and a devoted missionary, of earnest and consistent piety. See Wilson, Presh. Hist, A Imanac, 1802, p. 117. (J." L. S.)