ALSOP, ANTHONY, an English divine and poet, was educated at Westminster School, and from thence elected to Christ Church, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. in March 1696, and of B.D. in December 1706. On his coming to the university, he was very soon distinguished by Dean Aldrich, and published Fabularum Æsopicarum Delectus, Oxon. 1698, 8vo, with a poetical dedication to Lord Viscount Scudamore, and a preface in which he took part against Dr Bentley in the famous dispute with Mr Boyle. His death, which happened on the 10th June 1726, was occasioned by his falling into a ditch that passed his garden door. A quarto volume was published in 1752, under the title of Antonii Alsopi, Ædis Christi olim Alumni, Odarum libri duo. Four English poems of his are in
Dodsley's Collection, one in Pearche's, several in the early volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine, and some in The Student. Alsop is respectfully mentioned by the facetious Dr King as having enriched the commonwealth of learning by Translations of Fables from Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic; and not less detractingly by Bentley, under the name of "Tony Alsop, a late editor of the Æsopian Fables."