ADDISON, Lancelot, father of the preceding, a clergyman, was born in the parish of Crosby-Ravensworth, in Westmoreland, in the year 1632. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, and at the restoration of King Charles II. accepted of the chaplainship of the garrison of Dunkirk; but that fortress being delivered up to the French in 1662, he returned to England, and was soon after made chaplain to the garrison of Tangier, where he continued seven years, and was greatly esteemed. In 1670 he returned to England, and was made chaplain in ordinary to the king; but his chaplainship of Tangier being taken from him on account of his absence, he found himself straitened in his circumstances, when he seasonably obtained the rectory of Milston in Wiltshire, worth about £120 per annum. He afterwards became a prebendary of Sarum, took his degree of doctor of divinity at Oxford, and in 1683 was made dean of Lichfield, and the next year archdeacon of Coventry. His life was exemplary, his conversation and writings were pleasing and instructive, and his behaviour as a gentleman, a clergyman, and a neighbour, did honour to the place of his residence. He died 20th April 1703.