BAXTER (William), nephew and heir to the former, was an eminent schoolmaster and critic. He was born at Lanugany in Shropshire, in the year 1650; and it is remarkable, that at the age of 18, when he first went to school, he knew not one letter nor understood one word of any language but Welsh; but he so well improved his time, that he became a person of great and extensive knowledge. His genius led him chiefly to the study of antiquities and philology, in which he composed several books. The first he published was a Grammar, in 1679, intitled De Analogia seu Arte Latinae Linguae Commentarius. He also published a new and correct edition of Anacreon, with Notes; an edition of Horace; a Dictionary of the British antiquities, in Latin; and several other books. He was a great master of the ancient British and Irish tongues, was particularly skilled in the Latin and Greek, and in the northern and eastern languages. He died May 31. 1723, after being above 20 years master of Mercer's School in London.