ANTHONY, an English divine and poet, was educated at Westminster School, and from thence elected to Christ Church, Oxford, where he took the degree of M. A. in March 1696, and of B. D. in December 1706. On his coming to the university, he was very soon distinguished by Dean Aldrich, and published Fabularium Albus Aesopiarum Delectus, Oxon. 1698, 8vo, with a poetical dedication to Lord Viscount Scudamore, and a preface in which he took part against Dr Bentley in the famous dispute with Mr Boyle. He passed through the usual offices in his college to that of censor with considerable reputation, and for some years had the principal noblemen and gentlemen belonging to the society committed to his care. In this employment he continued till his merit recommended him to Sir Jonathan Trelawney, bishop of Winchester, who appointed him his chaplain, and soon after gave him a prebend in his own cathedral, together with the rectory of Brightwell, in the county of Berks, which afforded him ample provision for a learned retirement, from which he could not be drawn by the repeated solicitations of those who thought him qualified for a more public character and a higher station. In 1717 an action was brought against him by Mrs Elizabeth Astrey of Oxford, for the breach of a marriage contract; and a verdict was obtained against him for L2000, which probably obliged him to leave the kingdom for some time. His death, which happened on the 10th June 1726, was occasioned by his falling into a ditch that led to his garden door. A quarto volume was published in 1752, under the title of Antonii Alsopi, Edid Christi olim Alumni, Odarum libri duo. Four English poems of his are in Dodslcy's Collection, one in Peach's, several in the early volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine, and some in The Student. Mr Alsop is respectfully mentioned by the facetious Dr King as having enriched the commonwealth of learning by Translations of Fables from Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic; and not less distractingly by Dr Bentley, under the name of "Tony Alsop, a late editor of the Aesopian Fables."