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320WHITTINGHAM, WILLIAM ROLLINSONinterdenominational cooperation that became commonplace in the nineteenth century.Downplaying ecclesiastical distinctions, including his own affiliation withthe Church of England, he delivered a message that touched thousands of peopleregardless of church membership or social class. A reawakener of experientialpiety, Whitefield was one of the most popular figures in colonial America. Hedied in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in September 1770 during what proved tobe his final American preaching tour.BibliographyA. A Journal and A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield’s Journal, 7 vols. (London,1739–43); The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., 6 vols. (London,1771–72); Memoirs of the Rev. George Whitefield, ed. John Gillies (London, 1772;reprint, Hartford, 1853); Fifteen Sermons (Philadelphia, 1794); Eighteen Sermons(Newburyport, Mass., 1797).B. AAP 5, 94–108; ANB 23, 255–56; DAB 20, 124–29; DARB, 600–602; EARH, 787–88;ERS, 841; HEC, 43–59; NCAB 5, 384–85; SH 12, 341–42; William Howland KenneyIII, “George Whitefield: Dissenter Priest of the Great Awakening, 1739–1741,”WMQ, 3d ser., 26 (1969): 75–93; Luke Tyerman, The Life of the Rev. GeorgeWhitefield, 2 vols. (New York, 1876–77); Stuart C. Henry, George Whitefield: WayfaringWitness (Nashville, 1954); John Pollock, George Whitefield and the GreatAwakening (Garden City, N.Y., 1972); Harry S. Stout, The Divine Dramatist:George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelism (Grand Rapids, Mich.,1991); Frank Lambert, “Pedlar in Divinity”: George Whitefield and the TransatlanticRevivals, 1737–1770 (Princeton, 1994).WHITTINGHAM, WILLIAM ROLLINSON (2 December 1805, New York–17 October 1879, Orange, N.J.). Education: Graduated from the General TheologicalSeminary, 1825. Career: Librarian, General Theological Seminary, 1825–27; chaplain, Charity School of Trinity Church, New York, 1827–29; rector, St.Mark’s Church, Orange, N.J., 1829–30; rector, St. Luke’s Church, New York,1831–35; professor of ecclesiastical history, General Theological Seminary,1836–40; bishop, diocese of Maryland, 1840–79.William Rollinson Whittingham, a bishop and influential high church leader,was born in New York City in December 1805. After graduating from GeneralTheological Seminary, he was ordained a deacon in March 1827 and a priest inDecember 1829. His first major position in the church was at St. Luke’s Churchin New York, where he served as rector between 1831 and 1835. After poor healthrequired him to resign from St. Luke’s, he undertook 15 months of travel abroad,chiefly in the Mediterranean. In 1836 he was appointed professor of ecclesiasticalhistory at General Seminary, then the center of Tractarian high churchmanship inthe United States. Whittingham became a popular professor, establishing a reputationfor himself as an exceptionally learned and devoted scholar. He also hada marked influence on his students, who took with them the high church valuesthey had learned at General into the parishes where they worked.