(Laurence), an Irish clergyman, rector of Conesby in Lincolnshire, and poet laureat after the death of Mr Rowe. His first patron was the eminent lord Halifax; whose poem, on the battle of the Boyne, he translated into Latin, and dedicated to his lordship. He was esteemed by the duke of Newcastle, who rewarded an epithalamium he wrote on his marriage with the place of poet laureat. He was the author of many poetical Eusebius, poetical pieces, though but little known before his pre- ferment: he died in 1730.