HENRY JOHN, was born in 1763. Passing from Hertford College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1786, he became a minor canon of Canterbury Cathedral. He was presented successively to the vicarage of Milton in 1792; to the rectory of Allhallows, London; to the keepership of the manuscripts at Lambeth in 1803; to the rectory of Settrington, in Yorkshire, in 1820; prebend of Husthwaite, in the cathedral church of York, in 1830; and in 1832 he was made Archdeacon of Cleveland. Todd died chaplain-in-ordinary to her Majesty on the 24th December 1845.

The chief works of Archdeacon Todd were the following—The Poetical Works of John Milton, with Notes and a Life, 6 vols. 8vo, 1801; The Works of Edmund Spenser, with Notes and a Life, 8 vols. 8vo, 1805; Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer, 8vo, 1810; Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, with Corrections and Additions, 4 vols. 4to, 1814; Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Rev. Brian Walton, Bishop of Chester, 2 vols. 8vo, 1821; A Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the Authorship of Icon Basilike (in which the work is assigned to Bishop Gardiner), 8vo, 1825 (followed up by various answers and replies); Life of Archbishop Cranmer, 2 vols. 8vo, 1831.

Todd wrote, besides, catalogues and various theological pieces. His gift lay rather in the field of bibliography than in that of criticism. His notes were, for the most part, rather dry and uninteresting.