, LL. D. grandson to the preceding Dr. Comber, dean of Durham, was
, LL. D. grandson to the preceding
Dr. Comber, dean of Durham, was educated at Jesus
college, Cambridge, where he took his degrees of B. A. 1744,
M. A. 1770, and LL. D. 1777. He was rector of Kirkby
Misperton, Yorkshire, and afterwards rector of Morborne
and Buckworth in Huntingdonshire. He was a man of
considerable parts and learning, and the author of several
controversial tracts, among which are: 1. “The Heathen
rejection of Christianity in the first ages considered/' 1747,
8vo. 2.
” An Examination of a late introductory Discourse concerning Miraculous Power,“by Dr. Middleton, a
pamphlet in which Warburton discovered marks of genius
and sense, but with some puerilities. 3.
” A Vindication
of the great Revolution in England in 1688, &c.“1758,
8vo. 4.
” A Free and Candid Correspondence on the
Farmer’s Letter to the people of England, &c. with the
Author,“1770, 8vo. 5.
” A Treatise of Laws, from the
Greek of Sylburgius’s edition of Theodoret, bishop of Cyprus, &c.“177G, 8vo. 6.
” Memoirs of the Life and
Death of the right hon. the Lord Deputy Wandesforde,“Cambridge, 1778, 12mo. Dr. Comber was great great
grandson to this nobleman. This last is a very curious and
a very scarce performance. It is marked on the title-page,
vol. II. and was to be considered as the second volume of a
work published by our author in 1777, entitled
” A Book
of Instructions, written by sir Christopher Wandesforde to
his son, but they are seldom found together." Dr. Comber died in 1778.