an English clergyman, was born in 1697, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford. He became dean of Carlisle in 1735, and died in 1763. He wrote, The Employment of Time (1750): — The Ghost of Ernest (1757): —Letters and Tracts on the Choice of Company, etc. (1761): — and some other works. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.: