a divine of the Church of England, born in London about 1696(?); entered Benedict College, Cambridge, 1714; became fellow of Emanuel College, Cambridge, 1720; afterward rector of Marcaston, Leicestershire, where he died in 1756. He is known chiefly by his Critical Commentary on the Apocrypha (new ed. Lond. 1822, 4to), which is printed together with Patrick's, Louth's, and Whitby's Commentaries (best ed. Tegg, Lond. 4 vols. 8vo).-Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. i, 99; Allibone, Dict. of Authors, i, 69.