(Robert), bishop of Carlisle, was born at Burnham in Buckinghamshire about the year 1493, and educated at Eaton-school; from whence, in 1507, he was elected scholar of King's college, Cambridge, where he took his degrees in arts, and was afterwards proctor of the university. In 1525, he was appointed master of Eaton-school, then became fellow of that college, and finally provost. In 1529, he went to Oxford, where, being first incorporated bachelor of divinity, in the following year he proceeded doctor in that faculty; in 1531, he was made arch-deacon of Chester; in 1534, canon of Windsor; and the same year, regaliaire of the order of the garter. He was consecrated bishop of Carlisle in the year 1537, and died at Horncliffe in Lincolnshire in 1556. He wrote,

1. Epistolae ad Gul. Hornamum, in Latin verse; printed in Horan's Antiquities, Lond. 1521, of which book Pitts erroneously makes Aldrich the author. 2. Epigrammata varia. 3. Latin versi, and another epistle to Horan, prefixed to the Vulgaria pruorum of that author, Lond. 1519, 4to. 4. Answers to certain queries concerning the abuse of the mass; also about receiving the sacrament.

(Dr Henry), an eminent English divine and philosopher, born at London in 1647, was educated at Westminster school under the famous Dr Busby, and admitted of Christ-church college, Oxford. He had a great share in the controversy with the Papists in the reign of James II., and bishop Burnet ranks him among those who examined all the points of popery with a solidity of judgment, clearness of argument, depth of learning, and vivacity of writing, far beyond any who had before that time written in our language. He rendered himself so conspicuous, that at the revolution, when Maffey the papist dean of Christ-church fled, his deanship was conferred on him. In this station he behaved in an exemplary manner, and that fabric owes much of its beauty to his ingenuity: it was Aldrich who designed the beautiful square called Peckwater Quadrangle, which is esteemed an excellent piece of architecture. In imitation of his predecessor Dr Fell, he published, yearly, a piece of some ancient Greek author, as a present to the students of his house: he published A System of Logic, with some other pieces; and the revising Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, was intrusted to him and bishop Spratt. He died about the year 1711.

ALDROVANDUS (Ulysses), professor of philosophy and physic at Bologna, the place of his nativity. He was a most curious inquirer into natural history, and travelled into the most distant countries on purpose to inform himself of their natural productions. Minerals, metals, plants, and animals, were the objects of his curious researches; but he applied himself chiefly to birds, and was at great expense to have figures of them drawn from the life. Aubert le Mire says, that he gave a certain painter, famous in that art, a yearly salary of 200 crowns, for thirty years and upwards; and that he employed at his own expense Lorenzo Bennini and... and Cornelius Swintus, as well as the famous engraver Christopher Coriolanus. These expenses ruined his fortune, and at length reduced him to the utmost necessity; and it is said that he died blind in an hospital at Bologna, at a great age, in 1605. Mr Bale observes, that antiquity does not furnish us with an instance of a design so extensive and so laborious as that of Aldrovandus, with regard to natural history; that Pliny has treated of more kinds of subjects, but only touches lightly on them, leaving but a little upon anything, whereas Aldrovandus has collected all he could meet with. His compilation, or that compiled upon his plan, consists of thirteen volumes in folio, several of which were printed after his death. He himself published his Ornithology, or History of Birds, in three folio volumes, in 1599; and his seven books Of Insects, which make another volume of the same size. The volume Of Serpents, three Of Quadrupeds, one Of Fishes, that Of Exanguous Animals, the History of Mollusks, with the Supplement to that of Animals, the treatise Of Metals, and the Dendrology or History of Trees, were published at several times after the death of Aldrovandus, by the care of different persons; and Aldrovandus is the sole author only of the first five volumes of this work, the rest having been finished and compiled by others, upon the plan of Aldrovandus: a most extensive plan, wherein he not only relates what he has read in naturalists, but remarks also what historians have written, legislators ordained, and poets feigned; he explains also the different uses which may be made of the things he treats of, in common life, in medicine, architecture, and other arts; in short, he speaks of morality, proverbs, devices, riddles, hieroglyphics, and many other things which relate to his subject.