WHITBY (Dr Daniel), a very learned English writer, was born in 1638, and bred at Oxford; where in 1664 he was elected perpetual fellow of his college. He afterward became chaplain to Dr Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury; who collated him in 1668 to the prebend of Yatesbury in that church, and soon after to that of Husburn and Burbach. In 1672 he was admitted chanter of the said church on the death of Mr John South, and then, or soon after, rector of St Edmund's church in Salisbury. He was made a prebendary of Taunton Regis in 1696, and died in 1726. He was ever strangely ignorant of worldly affairs, even to a degree that is scarcely to be conceived. His writings are numerous, and well known; particularly his Commentary on the New Testament.