FOTHERGILL, DR GEORGE, was born in West-
morland in 1705, where his family had been long Fothergill, 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 Brimley 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.