Dr Richard), son of a gentleman in Westminster, was born at Lutton in Lincolnshire, in 1666. He passed through the classes in Westminster school, as king's scholar; and completed his studies at Christchurch, Oxford. In 1640, he was appointed master of Westminster school; and by his skill and diligence in the discharge of this important and laborious office, for the space of 55 years, bred up the greatest number of eminent men in church and state that ever at one time adorned any age or nation. He was extremely severe in his school; though he applauded wit in his scholars, even when it reflected on himself. This great man, after a long and healthy life purchased by temperance, died in 1695, aged 89; and was buried in Westminster abbey, where there is a fine monument erected for him, with a Latin inscription. He composed several books for the use of his school.

Bush (Paul), the first bishop of Bristol, became a student in the university of Oxford about the year 1515; and in 1518 took the degree of bachelor of arts. He afterwards became a brother of the order called benedicti; of which, after studying some time among the friars of St Austin, (now Wadham college), he was elected provincial. In that station he lived many years; till at length king Henry VIII. being informed of his great knowledge in divinity and physic, made him his chaplain, and in 1542 appointed him to the new episcopal see of Bristol; but having in the reign of Edward VI. taken a wife, he was, on the accession of Mary, deprived of his dignity, and spent the remainder of his life in a private station at Bristol, where he died in the year 1558, aged 68, and was buried on the north side of the choir of the cathedral. Wood says, that while he was a student at Oxford, he was numbered among the celebrated poets of that university; and Pits gives him the character of a faithful catholic, his want of charity notwithstanding. He wrote,

1. An exhortation to Margaret Burges, wife to John Burges, clothier, of King's-wood, in the county of Wilts. Lond. printed in the reign of Edward VI. 8vo.

2. Notes on the Psalms. 3. Treatise in praise of the cross. 4. Answer to certain queries concerning the abuses of the mass. Records, no. 25. 5. Dialogues between Christ and the Virgin Mary. 6. Treatise of falses and curing remedies. 7. A little treatise in English, called The extirpation of ignorance, &c., in verse. Loud. by Pinson, 4to. 8. Carmina diversa.