Samuel), an ingenious English divine, who in his youth wrote the celebrated poem intitled The Fair Circassian. He had the livings of Hampton in Middlesex; and the united parishes of St Mary Somerset, and St Mary Mounthaw, in London; both which he held till his death in 1751. He published many other poems and translations, with an entire English edition of Esop's Fables. In consequence of his attachment to Whig principles, he enjoyed some other preferments, and was chaplain in ordinary to George II.