an English clergyman, was born Jan. 22,1751, and educated at Westminster School, and at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was presented to the vicarage of St. Giles, Reading, in 1774, and soon after to the rectory of Chelsea. He spent the greater part of his life at St. Giles in faithful and successful ministerial labors. He died Jan. 18, 1797. His publications consist of several single sermons; and after his death appeared Discourses, Letters, and Memoirs of his Life,. by Richard Cecil, M.A. (1798). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Diet. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.