EDWARD, an English clergyman, born at Totness in 1704, and educated at the university of Oxford, distinguished for his extensive acquaintance with the Teutonic languages. He appeared before the public for the first time in 1743, in the character of editor of the valuable MSS. of Francis Junius, entitled Etymologicum Anglicanum, which had lain so long unedited in the Bodleian Library. He afterwards, at the request of Berzelius, Bishop of Upsal, published a translation of Ulphilas' version of the Evangelists. He wrote an extensive dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon and Gothic languages, which appeared after his death in 1772, 2 vols. folio. He held the living of Yardley-Hastings, in Northampton, till his death in 1767.