(Dr Richard), a learned English bishop, was born in Sussex, and bred at Cambridge. In 1689, he was installed dean of Peterborough; and in 1691, was nominated to the bishopric of Bath and Wells, in the room of Dr Thomas Ken, who had been deprived for not taking the oaths to king William and queen Mary. He published, 1. The young man's duty. 2. A demonstration of the Messiah, 3 vols 8vo. 3. A commentary on the five books of Moses, 2 vols 8vo; and several other pious and valuable tracts. He was killed with his lady in his bed by the fall of a stack of chimneys, at his house in Wells, during the great storm in 1703. The bishop, in the dissertation prefixed to his commentary on the five books of Moses, having reflected upon Monsieur Le Clerc, some letters passed between them in Latin, which are published by Le Clerc in his Bibliothèque Choise.