Edward Aspinwall, D.D. (died 1732), was an English polemical divine.

Life

Aspinwall received his education at Cambridge University, and was appointed chaplain to the Earl of Radnor

Earl of Radnor

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. Afterwards he became sub-dean of the Chapel Royal

Chapel Royal

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, and in 1729 was instituted prebendary

Prebendary

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 of Westminster.

Aspinwall died on 3 August 1732.

Works

Aspinwall was the author of a Preservative against Popery, 1715, and an Apology, being a series of Arguments in Proof of the Christian Religion, 1731. The Apology, mainly directed against the deist Anthony Collins

Anthony Collins

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, was prefaced by an address 'To all Impartial Freethinkers,' in which Aspinwall articulated his ideal of impartiality: