or Burghill, Robert, a learned historian and divine, born at Dymock in Gloucestershire in 1572. At the age of fifteen he entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of which he afterwards became a fellow. Shortly after taking orders, he received the living of Northwold in Norfolk, where he ultimately died in 1641, just before the outbreak of the civil war. His learning and judgment were deemed worthy of especial notice by the author of the Athene Oxoniensis; and were highly appreciated by Sir Walter Raleigh, who derived much assistance from Burhill, when engaged upon his History of the World, during his confinement in the Tower.