HUGH, D.D., an eminent English prelate, was born in or near London, January 4, 1671. He was educated at Merchant Tailors' School, whence he removed to Christ Church, Oxford; and some time after was elected a demy of Magdalen College at the same time with Addison and Wilcox. In 1700 he was made chaplain to Sir Charles Hodges, secretary of state; and soon afterwards was preferred to the rectory of St Olave, Southwark, and the arch-deaconry of Surrey. In 1719 he attended George I. to Hanover as his chaplain. The king appointed him English tutor to Prince Frederick; and rewarded his services by making him dean of Christ Church and bishop of Bristol in the same year. About four years after he was nominated to the archbishopric of Armagh; the alarming discontent existing at the time in Ireland having suggested the wisdom of having in the primacy a man whose judgment and moderation would contribute to the preservation of tranquillity. Boulter at first declined the office, but the urgent command of the king finally overcame his reluctance, and he arrived in Ireland in November 1724. He at once devoted himself with zeal and energy to the promotion of the welfare of that country; and his noble acts of public spirit and beneficence did much to alleviate the national distress. In seasons of great scarcity he was more than once instrumental in preventing an impending famine; and on one of these occasions he distributed vast quantities of corn throughout the kingdom, for which he received the thanks of the House of Commons. At another time 2500 persons were fed at the poor-house in Dublin every morning, and as many every evening, for a considerable time, mostly at his own expense. Every measure of public improvement received his hearty co-operation. He was a true friend to the poor clergy of his diocese, and maintained several of their children in the university. He erected four houses at Drogheda for the reception of clergymen's widows, and purchased an estate to endow them. His charities for augmenting small livings and buying glebes amounted to upwards of £30,000, besides what he devised by will for similar purposes in England. In short, the instances of his generosity and benevolence, his virtue, piety, and wisdom, are almost immu- BOUTTINE, a term among workmen for a moulding, the convexity of which is just one-fourth of a circle. It is the member just below the plinth in the Tuscan and Doric capitals.