Dr Philémon, the "translator-general of his age," as he was called by his contemporaries, was born in 1551 at Chelmsford, Essex. He was educated at the grammar-school of that town, and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow. On being appointed to the rectorship of the free grammar-school of Coventry, he began that long series of translations from the classics which have saved his name from oblivion even to our own times. He also found time to carry on a very considerable practice as a physician. By a proper use and distribution of his time he reconciled his three professions of schoolmaster, doctor, and translator, fulfilling the functions of all three with undiminished vigour and assiduity till his eightieth year. He died in 1636, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. His chief translations are those of Livy; Plutarch's Moralia; Suetonius; Ammianus Marcellinus; and the Cyropedia of Xenophon. He also did good service to literature by his edition of Camden's Britannia, to which he made some valuable additions.