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'''George England''' ([[fl.]] 1735), was an English divine and author.
England was a member of the England family which flourished at [[Great Yarmouth|Yarmouth]], [[Norfolk]], in the 16th and 17th centuries, and may have been a grandson of Sir George England.
==Career==
He was [[chaplain]] to Lord Hobart, by whom he was presented in 1733 to the [[Benefice|living]] of [[Hanworth, Norfolk]]. In 1737 he resigned Hanworth to become rector of [[Wickmere|Wolterton and Wickmere]], a consolidated living in the same county.
==Writings==
He was the author of ‘An Enquiry into the Morals of the Ancients,’ London, 1737, 4to, a work based on the belief that the ‘ancients,’ by whom is understood the [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]] and [[Ancient Rome|Romans]], were much superior in the practice of morality to [[Christians]] in general.
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