an English clergyman, husband of the noted writer Catharine Cockburn, was born about 1678, and was many years vicar of LongHorseley, Northumberland. He died in 1749. He wrote, Penitential Office (1721): — Praying for Superiors, etc. (1728, 1739): — An Inquiry into the Truth andCertainty of the Mosaic Deluge (1750). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. andAmer. Authors, s.v.