MEN OF LEARNING AND GENIUS. m. 



1694 John Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury, Halifax ; 254 sermons, 

 1697 Sir William Temple, London ; politics and polite literature. 

 1701 John Dryden, Northamptonshire; 27 tragedies and comedies, satiric poems., 

 Virgil. 



1704 John Locke, Somersetshire; philosophy, government, and theology. 



1705 John Ray, Essex; botany, natural philosophy, and divinity. 

 1707 George Farquhar, Londonderry ; eight comedies. 



1713 Ant. Ash. Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury ; Characteristics. 



1714 Gilbert Burnet, Edinb. bishop of Salisbury ; history, biography, divinity, &c 



1718 Nicholas Rowe, Devonshire ; seven tragedies, translation of Lucan's Pharsalia, 

 William Penn, religious and political tracts and essays, died July 30. 



1719 Rev. John Flamsteed, Derbyshire; mathematics and astronomy. 

 Joseph Addison, Wiltshire ; Spectator, Guardian, poems, politics. 

 Dr. John Keil, Edinburgh ; mathematics and astronomy. 



1721 Matthew Prior ; poems and politics. 



1724 William Wollaston, Staffordshire; Religion of Nature delineated. 



1727 Sir Isaac Newton, Lincolnshire ; mathematics, geometry, astronomy, optics. 



1729 Rev. Dr. Samuel Clarke, Norwich ; mathematics, divinity, &c. 



Sir Richard Steele, Dublin; four comedies, papers in Tatler, &c. 



William Congreve, Staffordshire ; seven dramatic pieces. 

 1732 John Gay, Exeter; poems, fables, and eleven dramatic pieces. 

 17o4 Dr. John Arbuthnot, Mearnsshire; medicine, coins, politics. 

 1742 Dr. Edmund Halley, natural philosophy, astronomy, navigation. 



Dr Richard Bentley, Yorkshire ; classical learning, criticism. 



1744 Alexander Pope, London ; poems, letters, translation of Homer. 



1745 Rev. Dr Jonathan Swift, Dublin ; poems, politics, and letters. 



1746 Colin. M'Laurin, Arg\leshire; algebra, view of Newton's Philosophy. 

 1748 James Thomson, Roxburgshire ; Seasons and other poems, five tragedies. 



Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts, Southampton ; logic, philosophy, psalms, hymns, ser» 

 O mons, &c. 



Dr. Francis Hutcheson, Ayrshire; system of moral philosophy. 



1750 Rev. Dr. Conyers, Middleton, Yorkshire ; Life of Cicero, &c. 

 Andrew Baxter, Old Aberdeen ; metaphysics, and natural philosophy. 



1751 Henry St. John, Lord Bollingbroke, Surry ; philosophy, metaphysics, and 



politics. 



Dr Alexander Monro, Edinburgh ; anatomy of the human body. 

 1754 Dr. Richard Mead, London ; on poisons, plague, small-pox, medicine. 



Henry Fielding, Somersetshire ; Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, &c. 

 1757 ColleyCibber, London; 25 tragedies and comedies. 

 1761 Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London ; 69 sermons, &c. 



Benjamin Hoadly, bishop of Winchester; sermons and controversy. 



Samuel Richardson, London ; Grandison, Clarissa, Pamela. 



Rey. Dr. John Leland, Lancashire ; Answer to Deistical Writers. 

 1765 Rev. Dr. Edward Young ; Night Thoughts, and other poems, three trage- 

 dies. 



Robert Simson, Glasgow ; Conic Sections, Euclid, Apollonius. . 



1768 Rev Lawrence Sterne ; 45 Sermons, Sentimental Journey, Tristram Shandy. 



1769 Robert Smith, Lincolnshire ; harmonics and optics. 



1770 Rev. Dr. Jortin ; Life of Erasmus, Ecclesiastical History, and sermons. 

 Dr- Mark Akenside, Newcastle upon Tyne : poems. 



Dr. Tobias Smollet, Dumbartonshire; History of England, novels, transla* 

 tions. 



1771 Thomas Gray, professor of Modern History, Cambridge ; poems. 



1773 Philip Dormer Stanhope, earl of Chesterfield ; letters. 

 George lord Lyttleton, Worcestershire ; History of England. 



1774 Oliver Goldsmith ; poerns, essays and other pieces. 



Zachary Pearce, bishop of Rochester ; Annotations on the New Testament, 

 &c. 



1775 Dr. John Hawkesworth ; essays. 



1776 David Hume, Mer.se; History of England, and essays. 

 James Ferguson, Aberdt.enshire ; astronomy. 



1777 Samuel Foote, Cornwall ; plays. 

 1779 David Garrick, Hereford; plays, &c 



William Warbuiton, bishop of Gloucester ; Divine Legation of Moses, and 

 various other works. 



