OF EMINENT MEN, 



Valentine Gary, D. D. Bifhop of Exeter, \\as born at Berwick 

 upon Titled, and clefcendecl from the Carys, Barons of Hunfdon. He 

 was twice fellow of St. John's college, and intermediately of 

 Cbrift's college, in Cambridge, of which he was warden. He was 

 vice-chancellor of that univerfity in 1612; reftor of Epping, in 

 EJftx, and afterwards of Toft, in Cambridge/hire ; Dean of St. Pauls ; 

 and for his genteel and polite breeding, and excellent learning, 

 was, at length, preferred to the See of Exeter. To the poor of 

 that city, when vifited with the great ficknefs, he extended his 

 charity with a liberal hand. He died in 1626; and was interred 

 under a plain ftone in the cathedral of St. Pauls. A fepulchral 

 memorial was alfo creeled for him in his cathedral of Exeter (c), 



Robert Cohering, L. L. D. Bifliop of Peterborough, noted for his 

 fkill in the oriental languages, was born in Neivcaftle upon Tyne t 

 and defcended from the C/averings of Tilt-mouth^, a branch of the 

 houfe of Calleley (d). He was made the King's Hebrew profeflbr 

 at Oxford, i sth May, 1715- ; to which a canonry of Cbrift's church 

 in that univerfity is annexed. He was preferred to the bifhop- 

 rick of Landaff\ and the deanery of Hereford, $ift. Augujl, 1724, 

 and tranflated to the biflioprick of Peterborough on the death of 

 Dr. White Kennet, in January 1728-9; holding his profeflbrihip, 

 and his living of Marffj, in Buckingham/hire, in commendam. He 

 died injufy, 1747. 



Thirdly, of great Patrons of Learning. The moft eminent patron 

 of learning is Robert Wood/ark, D. D. He was born in Northwn- 



(c) Stow's Survey of London, p. 776. 

 Fuller's Worthies, p. 305. 

 Parker's Hiftof Cambridge, p. 125. 



(d) Ct/Ilins's Englijh Baron, vol. iii. p, 2981 



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