WILLIAM, LL.D., a Dissenting divine of considerable eminence, was born at Sudbury in 1741. He received his education at the Dissenting academy at Daventry, then conducted by Dr Ashworth, and was chosen minister of the congregation of Benn's Garden, Liverpool, in 1763. During his residence in Liverpool he published two volumes of sermons, as well as a collection of hymns and family prayers, which met with a very favourable reception. In 1770 he was appointed tutor and lecturer on the belles-lettres at Warrington academy, an office which he held till the dissolution of the academy in 1783. After the interval of a few years spent in private tuition, he was chosen pastor of the Dissenting congregation of Octagon Street, where he remained till his death, which took place Nov. 3, 1797, in the 57th year of his age. During his residence in Liverpool he married the daughter of a respectable draper in that city, and to her he was much indebted for the tranquillity and happiness of his life. Of the works of Dr Enfield a considerable number are mere compilations in which no higher quality is displayed than the taste which dictated the selection. To this class belong the Preacher's Directory, the English Preacher, the Speaker, and others. Among his original works, however, and especially those published or written at the close of his life, there are some that display considerable powers of thought and great elegance of expression. His posthumous sermons on the principal characters of the Old and New Testaments not only evince the author's ability as a commentator, but show profound insight into the ethics of history. At the recommendation of Dr Bagot, bishop of Norwich, he published an abridgment of Brucker's History of Philosophy, in 2 vols. 4to. He also wrote a work entitled the Institutes of Natural Philosophy, theoretical and experimental, 4to, 1783; besides a variety of occasional pamphlets and sermons.

a village of the hundred of Edmonton, in the county of Middlesex, 10 miles from London. There are the remains of an ancient royal palace, in which Edward VI. kept his court, and where Elizabeth rested on her way to London in order to assume the crown. Near to it was Enfield chase, disforested in 1779, divided between various parishes and the crown, and now occupied by several country seats of the more opulent traders of London. The parish is extensive. Pop. (1851) 9435.