BELSHAM, THOMAS, LL.D., for some years the principal of the Dissenters' Academy at Daventry, was born at Bedford in 1750. He abandoned Calvinism for the Unitarian theology, and proved himself in numerous publications a learned exponent of that system. In 1801 he gave to the world Elements of the Human Mind, and of Moral Philosophy, in which, following the doctrines of Hartley, he explained all mental operations by the association of ideas. He died at Hampstead in 1829.