MORELL, Thomas, an eminent classical scholar and editor, was born at Eton, in Buckinghamshire, on the 18th of March 1703. Having graduated at King's College, Cambridge, he was appointed curate of Kew in 1731, and for some time officiated in the same capacity at Twickenham. In 1737 he was made rector of Buckland; and in 1775 we find him acting as chaplain to the garrison at Portsmouth. He died on the 19th of February 1784. His principal works are,—A Collection of Theological Poems, original, and translated from the Latin of Vida, with notes, London, 1732-36, in 8vo; an edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, with modern imitations, London, 1737; an edition of the works of Spenser, 1747; the Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnissa, and Alcestes of Euripides, with ancient scholia and notes, London, 1748; an English translation of the Hecuba, with annotations; the Prometheus of Æschylus, with scholia, notes, and an English translation in blank verse, 1767; Two Letters on Greek Inscriptions found upon an altar at Corbridge in Northumberland; editions of the Greek Lexicon of Hederick, and of the Latin Dictionary of Ainsworth; Thesaurus Græcæ Poëseos, sive Lexicon Græco-Prosodiacum, Eton, 1762, in 4to, an imitation of the Gradus ad Parnassum, since considerably enlarged by Dr Maltby, Cambridge, 1815; and various other works, particularly Annotations on Locke's Essay, 1793, 8vo.