REV. THEOPHILUS, an able Socinian writer, was born in Middlewich, Cheshire, on the 20th June 1723. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took degrees, and afterwards obtained a fellowship. After travelling for two years on the Continent with the son of the Duke of Somerset, he was presented in 1753 to the living of Kirkby Wiske, in Yorkshire; and after exchanging it for that of Paddleton, in Dorsetshire, he removed to Catterick, in Yorkshire, where he remained for several years. He began to entertain Anti-Trinitarian views, which were confirmed in 1769 by his intimacy with Dr Priestley and the Rev. William Turner. In 1772 he took great interest in the debate in parliament on a bill to relieve scrupulous persons from subscribing the Thirty-nine Articles; but as the movement failed, he found it necessary to leave the Established Church, although at great personal sacrifice. From 1774 till 1778 he preached in a room in Essex Street, Strand, and afterwards removed to a chapel built for him in the same street. Here he continued to labour till 1793, when old age compelled him to leave the charge of his flock in the hands of Dr Disney, a sufferer in the same cause with himself, who had left the Establishment and become his colleague. Lindsey died 3rd November 1808, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. His chief work is, An Historical View of the State of the Unitarian Doctrine and Worship from the Reformation to our own times, 8vo, Lond. 1783. His life was written by Thomas Belsham, 8vo, Lond. 1812.