, second son of Hilkiah, was educated at Westminster-school; and was
, second son of Hilkiah, was educated at Westminster-school; and was afterwards admitted
of St. John’s college, Cambridge; became master’s sizar
to Dr. Robert Jenkin, the master; and was matriculated
Dec. 9, 1730. Being a nonjuror, he never took a degree;
but going into orders in that party, officiated amongst the
people of that mode of thinking in Derbyshire, fixing his
residence at Compton, near Ashbourne, where he became
much acquainted with Ellis Farueworth; and was reputed
a good scholar. Having some original fortune, and withal
being a very frugal man, and making also the most of his
money for a length of years, Mr. Bedford died rich at
Compton, in Feb. 1773, where he was well respected.
Having a sister married to George Smith, esq. near Durham (who published his father Dr. John Smith’s fine edition of Bede), Mr. Bedford went into the north, and there
prepared his edition of “Symeonis monacal Durihelmensis
libellus de exordio atque procursu Dunhelmensis ecclesiae;
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