EACHARD, JOHN, an English divine of great learning and wit in the 17th century, bred at Cambridge, author (in 1670) of The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion inquired into. In 1675 he was chosen master of Catharine-hall upon the decease of Dr John Lightfoot; and the year following was created D.D. by royal mandate. He died in 1696.