Laurence, an Irish clergyman, rector of Conely 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 pieces, though but little known before his premature death; he died in 1730.