archbishop of Canterbury, was born of obscure parents at Exeter, where, in the early part of his life, he taught a grammar-school; after which he took orders, and was made archdeacon of Exeter; but he resigned that dignity, and became a Cistercian monk in the monastery of Ford in Devonshire, of which in a few years he was made abbot. In the year 1180, he was consecrated bishop of Worcester. In 1184, he was promoted to the see of Canterbury by Pope Lucius III.; and, by his successor Urban III., was appointed legate for that diocese. He laid the foundation of a church and monastery in honour of Thomas Becket, at Hackington, near Canterbury, for secular priests; but, being opposed by the monks of Canterbury and the Pope, was obliged to desist. In 1190 he crowned king Richard I. at Westminster; and soon after followed that prince to the holy land, where he died at the siege of Toulouse. Giraldus Cambrensis, who accompanied him in this expedition, says he was of a mild disposition, and of great abstinence. He wrote various tracts on religious subjects, which were collected and published by Bertrand Tiffter in 1662.