John (1686–1697), an English divine, and the author of The Grounds and Occasions of the Contention of the Clergy and Religion inquired into, 1670. In 1675 he succeeded Lightfoot as master of Catharine Hall. He also wrote against the philosophy of Hobbes. A collected edition of his works was published in 1774.

Eachard, Laurence, an English historian, and nearly related to the preceding, was born in 1721 at Suffolk, where his father was a clergyman. He was educated in the university of Cambridge; and after taking orders was presented to the living of Welton and Elkington in Lincolnshire. He was subsequently archdeacon of Lincoln, and prebendary of Stowe. He died in 1730. The work by which he is best known is his History of England, in two parts, from the time of the Roman Invasion to the Revolution. It has been attacked by Calamy and Oldmixon; but though it reached several editions, it is now almost entirely forgotten. He wrote also an Ecclesiastical History from the Nativity of Christ to Constantine; a History of Rome till Augustus; a History of the Revolution, and several other works.