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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_62255" /> ==
<p> an English divine and antiquarian, was born at Holbeach, in Lincolnshire, Nov. 7, 1687. He was admitted into Bene't College, Cambridge, Nov. 7, 1703, and took the degree of J.B. in 1709. He first began to practice at Boston, in his native county, but removed to London in 1717, where he was soon after elected F.R.S. The degree of M.D. he took at [[Cambridge]] in 1719, and was admitted a fellow of the College of [[Physicians]] in the year following. Later his thoughts were turned to the Church, and he was ordained at Croydon, July 20, 1720. In October following he was presented to the living of All-Souls', Stamford. He became chaplain to the duke of Ancaster, and also received from him the living of Somerby, near Grantham, in 1739. In 1741 he preached the 30th of January sermon before the House of Commons, and in that year became one of the founders of the [[Egyptian]] Society. In 1747 he vacated his preferments in the country, and received the rectory of St. George's, [[Queen]] Square. He died March 3, 1765. In addition to other works on antiquities, he wrote, Paloeographia Sacra, or Discourses on the [[Monuments]] of [[Antiquity]] that Relate to [[Sacred]] History (1736, 4to): '''''—''''' Stonehenge, a [[Temple]] [[Restored]] to the British [[Druids]] (1740, fol.): '''''—''''' Abury, a Temple of the British Druids [[Described]] (1743, fol.): '''''—''''' Sermons (1742, 4to; 1750, 4to; 1756, 8vo). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v. </p>
        
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_80005" /> ==
<p> Antiquary, born at Holbeach, Lincolnshire; graduated in medicine at Cambridge, and practised in London and elsewhere till 1729, when he took holy orders, and, after holding livings at [[Stamford]] and Somerby, was presented in 1747 to the rectory of St [[George]] the [[Martyr]] in London; maintained a lifelong interest in antiquarian research, and published many volumes on British and Roman antiquities, in which he displays unflagging industry and an exuberant fancifulness; "I have used his materials," says Gibbon, "and rejected most of his fanciful conjectures"; his credulous works on the supposed Druidical remains at [[Stonehenge]] and elsewhere gained him the title of the "Arch-Druid" (1687-1765). </p>
        
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