a Dissenting minister, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in 1734. He became pastor of a body of Dissenters at Durham in 1757; of another, at Great Yarmouth, in 1761; and of another, at Nottingham, in 1774; was tutor in mathematics at Warrington from 1772 to 1796; and tutor in various branches at Manchester in 1796. He died in London in 1807. Among his published works are, Doctrine of the Sphere, etc. (1775): — Dissenter's Plea against the Test Laws (1790): — Sermons on Various Subjects (eod.): — Essays on Various Subjects, with a Life of the Author (1809, 2 vols.).