FOTHERGILL (Dr George), was born in Westmoreland in 1705, where his family had been long seated on a competent estate that had descended regularly for several generations. After an academical education in Queen's college, Oxford, of which he became a fellow, he was, in 1751, elected principal of St Edmund's-hall, and presented to the vicarage of Brumley in Hampshire. Having been long afflicted with an asthma, he died in 1760. He was the author of a collection of much esteemed sermons, in 2 vols 8vo. The first volume consists of occasional discourses, published by himself; the second printed from his MSS.