John, a learned lexicographer, was born at Catesby in Northamptonshire in 1728, and attended the school of Rugby. Having become a student of Clare Hall, Cambridge, he took the degree of M.A., was elected a fellow of his college, and entered into holy orders. A handsome competence which he inherited enabled him to devote all his time to literary pursuits. Accordingly, till his death in 1797, he assiduously applied himself, in spite of a weak constitution, to biblical studies. His principal works, a *Hebrew and English Lexicon*, without Points, and a *Greek and English Lexicon* to the New Testament, became very popular, and have been often reprinted. The latest edition of the former was published in 1845, that of the latter in 1851.

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