, a learned annotator on Dionysius Periegetes, was born in 1619,
, a learned annotator on Dionysius Periegetes, was born in 1619, at Cudworth in Warwickshire,
and educated at Merton college, Oxford, of which he was
made one of the post-masters. He was -elected probationer-fellow of that house in 1639, and afterwards bachelor-fellow, and thence was promoted to a-free-school at
Sutton-Colfield in his own county, which school he brought
into considerable credit during his abode there. He then
removed to London, and practised physic, and in 164i>
and 1652, had leave from the delegates of the university
to accumulate the degrees in physic, but Wood could not
discover that he took the benefit of this licence it is probable he did not, as in his “Dionysius
” he styles himself
only master of arts. After this he removed to Ireland to
resume the art of teaching, and became chief master of
the great school of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, but at the restoration, as he had sided with the parliamentary interest, or
at least was indebted to it for his promotion, he was ejected
from this office, and went to Finglass, near Dublin, where
he taught and boarded children of people of quality, and
was made minister of the church there. Before his death
he was created D. D. by the university of Dublin. He
died of a pestilential fever in Nov. 1667. His edition of
Dionysius is entitled “Dionisii orbis descriptio, annotationibus Eustathii, et Hen. Stepheni, nee non Gul. Hill
eommentario critico et geographico, ac tabulis illustrata,
”
Lond.