Sydenham, Floyer, Greek scholar; translated some of the Dialogues of Plato into English, and wrote a dissertation on Heraclitus, which failed of being appreciated, and involved in embarrassment, he was thrown into prison because he could not pay a small bill for provisions, and there died; his sad fate led to the foundation of the Literary Fund (1710‒1787).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Sydenham * Sydenham, Thomas