(Humphry), a learned English divine, was born in 1659. At 21 years of age, he published his celebrated Dissertation against Arius's history of the interpreters; which was received with great applause by all the learned, Isaac Vossius excepted, who could not bear to have his opinions opposed by such a youth. Twenty years after, he treated the subject more fully in his De Bibliorum textibus originalibus, veritatis Graecis & Latina vulgata, libri IV. In 1689, he wrote the Prologomena to John Melal's Chronicle, printed at Oxford; and the year after was made chaplain to Dr Stillington bishop of Worcester. The deprivation of the nonjuring bishops engaged him in a controversy with Mr Dodwell; which recommended him to archbishop Tilloton, to whom, and his successor Dr Tenison, he was domestic chaplain. In 1698 he was made regius professor of the Greek tongue at Oxford, and archdeacon of Oxford in 1704. On occasion of the controversy about the convocation, he, in 1701, published A history of English councils and convocations, and of the clergy's sitting in parliament, &c. He died in 1706, leaving in MS. An account of those learned Grecians who retired to Italy on the taking of Constantinople, &c. which was published in 1742 by Dr Jebb.