# Charles Dunster > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Charles_Dunster > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Charles_Dunster.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dunster > Source revision: 1336053490 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British writer and translator (1750–1816)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Use British English|date=September 2011}} {{Infobox person | name = Charles Dunster | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1750 | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death year and age|1816|1750}} | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = }} '''Charles Dunster''' (1750–1816) was a British writer and translator.{{sfn|Cannan|1888|p=231}} ==Life== He was the only son of the Rev. Charles Dunster, prebendary of Salisbury. He was admitted at [Oriel College](/source/Oriel_College), Oxford, as a commoner in 1767, took his B.A. degree at the end of 1770, migrated early in 1771 to Balliol, and again in 1773 to Trinity.{{sfn|Cannan|1888|p=231}} He was instituted to the Worcestershire rectories of Oddingley and [Naunton Beauchamp](/source/Naunton_Beauchamp) in 1776, and in 1789 (Arnold, ''Petworth'') to that of [Petworth](/source/Petworth) in Sussex. He became rural dean of [West Sussex](/source/West_Sussex), and held the rectory of Petworth until his death in April 1816.{{sfn|Cannan|1888|p=231}}{{cite web |title=Dunster, Charles (1772 - 1816) |url=https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=63354 |website=Clergy of the Church of England Database |publisher=CCEd |access-date=1 March 2025}} ==Publications== He published: # ''[The Frogs of Aristophanes](/source/The_Frogs_of_Aristophanes)'', 1785. # ''Cider, a poem by John Philips, with notes provincial and explanatory, including the present most approved method of making cyder in Herefordshire'', 1791. # ''Paradise Regained, with notes of various authors'', 1795. # ''Considerations on Milton's early reading and the "prima stamina" of his Paradise Lost'', 1800 (a work intended to show Milton's obligations to [Joshua Sylvester](/source/Joshua_Sylvester)). # ''A Letter on a Passage in St. Matthew'', 1804. # ''Discursory Considerations on [St. Luke's Gospel](/source/St._Luke's_Gospel)'', 1805. # ''Discursory Observations on the evidence that St. Matthew's Gospel was the first written'', 1806. # ''A Letter on the two last petitions of [the Lord's Prayer](/source/the_Lord's_Prayer)'', 1807. # ''A Letter on the incontrovertible Truth of Christianity'', 2nd edition, 1808. # ''Considerations on the hypothesis that St. Luke's Gospel was the first written'', 1808. # ''Points at issue between the Editor of Dr. Townson's Works and the Author of Considerations on the hypothesis, &c.'', 1811. # ''Considerations on the Holy Sacrament'', 1811. # ''Tracts on St. Luke's Gospel'', 1812. This is merely Nos. 6, 7, 10, and 11 bound up together with a general preface. # ''A Synopsis of the three first Gospels'', 1812. # ''Psalms and Hymns adapted for the use of a Parochial Church'', 1812. There is also a sonnet by Dunster on the death of [George Monck Berkeley](/source/George_Monck_Berkeley) in the ''Gentleman's Magazine'', for April 1795 (lxv. 328).{{sfn|Cannan|1888|p=231}} ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ==References== ;Attribution *{{DNB|first=Edwin |last=Cannan|wstitle=Dunster, Charles |volume=16 |pages=232}} Endnotes: **''Nichols's Lit. Anecd.'' ix. 236 **''Gentlemen's Magazine'', May 1816, lxxxvi. (part i.) 492 **Oriel, Balliol, and [Trinity College](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Oxford) manuscript Admission Books. ==External links== *{{commons category-inline}} *{{wikisource-inline|Author:Charles Dunster}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunster, Charles}} Category:1750 births Category:1816 deaths Category:18th-century English writers Category:18th-century English male writers Category:Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Category:19th-century English writers Category:18th-century English Anglican priests Category:19th-century English Anglican priests --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Charles Dunster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dunster) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dunster?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.