(Christopher), a learned English divine, was born in 1591, and bred at Oxford. In 1633, he published his "Answer to a late Popish plot," intitled Charity mistaken, which he wrote by special order of king Charles I., whose chaplain he was. In 1634, he was promoted to the deanery of Worcester; and, in 1640, was constituted vice-chancellor of the university of Oxford, in the execution of which office he met with some trouble from the members of the long parliament. Upon breaking out of the civil wars, he sent all his plate to the king, declaring, "that he would rather like Diogenes, drink in the hollow of his hand, than that his majesty should want;" and he afterward suffered much for the royal cause. In consideration of this he was nominated to the deanery of Durham in 1646, but was prevented from being installed by his death, which happened about two months after. He was a person learned and religious, exemplary in his conversation, courteous in his carriage, of a sweet and obliging nature, and of a comely presence. He was remarkable in his charity to the poor.

(Dr. John), archbishop of Canterbury, was the son of a linen-draper at Wakefield in Yorkshire, where he was born about the year 1674. He studied at University college, Oxford; and at 19 published Variantes lectiones & note ad Plutarchi librum de audientia poetarum; & ad Baffili magni orationem ad juvenem, quemodo cum fructu legere possint Graecorum libros, 8vo. 1693. In 1697, came out his edition of Lycephron, in folio; which is reckoned the best of that obscure writer; soon after, he published his Antiquities of Greece, 2 vols, 8vo. These works established his literary reputation, and engaged him in a correspondence with Gravius and other learned foreigners. In 1706, he was made chaplain to the queen; in 1715, bishop of Oxford; and in 1737, he succeeded archbishop Wake in the see of Canterbury; which high station he supported with much dignity until his death in 1747. He was a learned and exemplary churchman; but not of an amiable disposition, being strongly tinctured with that sort of pride which usually accompanies rigid orthodoxy; nor is it to his credit that he disdained his eldest son for marrying below his rank in life. His "Theological works, containing sermons, charges, discourses on church-government, and divinity lectures," were printed at Oxford, in 3 vols, 8vo. 1753.