WILLIAM, doctor of divinity, and rector of Beckenham, in Kent, was born in the year 1641, and was educated at Brazen-nose college, Ox- ford. After entering into orders, he became chaplain to the duke of Ormond, and was admitted doctor of divinity in 1673. Soon after, he was nominated to a prebend in the church of York, presented to the living of St Antholin, London, and to the rectory of Beck- enham in Kent. He was the first projector of the scheme for providing for clergymen's widows, and others, by a jointure payable out of the mercers com- pany. He wrote several pieces against the Papists and Dissenters, and some devotional tracts. He died at Beckenham in September 1711, in the 70th year of his age.