Richard (1708—60), a classical scholar, best known by his Miscellanea Critica, published in 1745, was born at Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, and educated at the Charter-house School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1731. His attempt to translate Milton into Greek hexameters was unsuccessful, although among English scholars he had deservedly a considerable reputation. He was a man of coarse manners and violent antipathies, and a bitter enemy of Bentley. The controversies between these two eminent men abundantly prove that the odium criticum is scarcely less violent than the odium theologicum.