ROBERT, D.D., a prelate distinguished for learning, worth, and probity, and a respectable member of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies of London, was advanced to the bishopric of Killala in January 1729; translated to the see of Cork in December 1735; to that of Clogher in August 1745; and died, much lamented, in February 1758. His publications are, 1. A Letter in the Philosophical Transactions, No. 461, p. 813, giving an account of a Frenchman seventy years old (at Inishanain, in his diocese of Cork), who said he gave suck to a child; 2. The Chronology of the Hebrew Bible vindicated, 1751, 4to; 3. An impartial Inquiry into the time of the coming of the Messiah, 1751, 8vo; 4. An Essay on Spirit, 1751, 8vo; 5. A Vindication of the Histories of the Old and New Testament, in answer to the Objections of Lord Bolingbroke, in two Letters to a young Nobleman, 1752, 8vo, reprinted in 1753; 6. A Defence of the Essay on Cleantes, with Remarks on the several pretended Answers; and which may serve as an antidote against all that Cleantes shall ever appear against it, 1758, 8vo; 7. A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai, and back again, translated from a manuscript, written by the prefecto of Egypt, in company with some Missionaries de propaganda fide at Grand Cairo; to which are added, Remarks on the Origin of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of the ancient Heathens, 1753, 8vo, two editions, 4to and 8vo; 8. Some Thoughts on Self-love, Innate Ideas, Free-will, Taste, Sentiments, Liberty, and Necessity, occasioned by reading Mr. Hume's Works, and the short Treatise written in French by Lord Bolingbroke on Compassion, 1754, 8vo; 9. A Vindication of the Histories of the Old and New Testament, Part II., adorned with several Explanatory Cuts, 1754, 8vo; 10. Letters between the Bishop of Clogher and Mr William Penn, concerning Baptism, 1755, 8vo; 11. A Speech delivered in the House of Lords in Ireland, on Monday, 2d February 1756, for omitting the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds out of the Liturgy, 1756, 8vo; 12. A Vindication, Part III. 1758, 8vo. The three parts of the Essay on Spirit were reprinted by Mr Bowyer, in one volume 8vo, 1759; with some additional notes, and an index of Texts of Scripture illustrated or explained.