CHRISTOPHER, a brave English officer, was born at Barbadoes in 1668, and educated at Oxford, where he held a fellowship. Having entered the army, he soon gained the favour of King William, and obtained a captaincy in the first regiment of foot guards. He was at the siege of Namur in 1695; and on the conclusion of the peace of Ryswick, he was made captain-general and governor-in-chief of the Leeward and Carribee Islands. He died at Barbadoes April 7, 1710; but his remains were in 1716 brought over to England and interred in the chapel of All-Souls College, Oxford. He bequeathed his plantations in Barbadoes, and part of the island of Barbuda, to the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts; and left a noble legacy to All-Souls College. He was the author of some poems in the Musae Anglicanae, London, 1741.