PARKHURST, JOHN, a learned lexicographer, was born at Catesby in Northamptonshire in 1728, and attended the school of Rugby. Having become a student of Clare Hall, Cambridge, he took the degree of M.A., was elected a fellow of his college, and entered into holy orders. A handsome competence which he inherited enabled him to devote all his time to literary pursuits. Accordingly, till his death in 1797, he assiduously applied himself, in spite of a weak constitution, to biblical studies. His principal works, a Hebrew and English Lexicon, without Points, and a Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament, became very popular, and have been often reprinted. The latest edition of the former was published in 1845, that of the latter in 1851.