English theologian, born in London on the 11th of May 1740. He was educated at St. Paul’s School and Dr. Savage’s Academy; was pastor of a dissenting church at Colyton, Devonshire; of a Baptist church at Taunton; became a convert of Unitarianism and the pastor of Dr. Priestley’s church in Birmingham in 1804. Among others, he published Memoirs of Faustus Socinus (1777); The Internal Evidences of Christianity (1785); and An Historical View of the State of Protestant Dissenters in England under King William (1814), the latter being supplementary to Neal’s History of the Puritans, a new edition of which he published in 1797. He died in London, July 23, 1815.—His son, Harry, born in Taunton, England, in 1766. He was pastor, for a time, of a dissenting church in Chowbent, Lancashire; in 1793 he came to Norfolk, VA, and two years later was chosen president of Transylvania University, which office he retained until 1796; was secretary of state for Kentucky (1796–1804); appointed United States district judge in Mississippi in 1804; moved to Alabama and assisted in framing the constitution of that state. He wrote Description of Kentucky (1792); Collection of the Acts of Kentucky (1802); and Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama (1823). He died on the 11th of November 1823.
