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Withers, Philip, D.D.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
an English clergyman, became chaplain to lady dowager Hereford in 1783. He was sentenced Nov. 21,1789, to a fine of 50 and a year's imprisonment for a libel on Mrs. Fitzherbert, wife to the prince of Wales, in his History of the Royal Malady (Lond. 1789). He died in Newgate, July 24,1790. He also published a work entitled Aristarchus; or, The Principles of Composition (1791).
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Withers, Philip, D.D.'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/w/withers-philip-dd.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.