JOHN, a well-known translator, educated in Christ's Hospital, was possessed of a competent fortune, and always enjoyed good places, being auditor-general of the city and bridge accounts, of St Paul's cathedral, and of St Thomas's hospital. Notwithstanding his attention to business, he still retained a love for polite literature: and though he did not appear as an original author, yet having made himself master of most of the living languages, he favoured the world with many translations from these, as well as from the Latin and Greek; which, if they are not the most elegant, are generally faithful and true to the originals. He died in the year 1743.