, vicar of Milford in Hampshire, was born at Clifton in Westmoreland,
, vicar of Milford in Hampshire,
was born at Clifton in Westmoreland, and admitted a student in Queen’s college, Oxford, in 1621; where having
passed the servile offices, and taken the degree of M. A.
Jie was elected a fellow. Soon after he went into holy orders, and in 1642 took the degree of B. D. He wrote
“Fasciculus prseceptorum logicalium in gratiam Juventutis
Academicse compositus;
” besides a few other small pieces,
the titles of which Wood has not recovered. He died the
18th of October, 1670, aged 69, and was buried in the
chancel of his church of Milford, with an epitaph, which
praises him as a vigilant vicar of that church, a gentleman
of the greatest integrity, judgment, and learning, and who
in the most difficult and troublesome times, adhered faithfully to his principles. Wood speaks of a Christopher
Airay, nephew to Dr. Adam Airay, principal of Edmund
hall, who ia 1660 contributed to enlarge the buildings of
old Queen’s college. They were probably both related to
the subject of the following article.