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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[STILLINGFLEET 
English , made in the year 1755 . This English portion was 
made at Stratton in Norfolk, where he had been staying with 
Marsham. He was a native of Norfolk, where he was born 
in 1702 , being the son of Edward Stillingfleet, son of the 
Bishop of Worcester of that name, who had an adventurous 
career and died in 1708 , leaving his family in straitened 
circumstances. Benjamin was educated first at Norwich 
School, from which he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 
as a sub-sizar in 1720 . He graduated B.A. in 1723 , and in 
the next year settled at Felbrigg, Norfolk, as a tutor, remain- 
ing fourteen years, and in 1737 going on a Continental tour 
with his charge. On his return in 1743 he received a small 
pension, and devoted himself to literature and natural history. 
His Calendar of Flora, first published separately in 1761 , was 
incorporated in the second edition of Miscellaneous Tracts 
relating to Natural History ( 1762 ), a work consisting of six 
essays translated from Linnaeus’s Amoenitates Academicae, 
with a preface and “ Observations on Grasses ” by Stilling- 
fleet. A third edition was published in 1775 , and a fourth 
in 1791 . His other works are numerous and varied. His 
Literary Life and Select Works were published by Coxe in 
1811 (3 vols. 8vo). 
He appears always to have lived in straitened circum- 
stances. Gray speaks of him as “ this philosopher who lives 
in a garret in the winter, that he may support some near 
relations who depend upon him. He is always employed, 
consequently (according to my old maxim) always happy, 
always cheerful.” 
He died at his lodgings, over a saddler’s in Piccadilly, 
December 15 , 1771 , and was buried in St. James’s, Piccadilly, 
where his grandnephew erected a tablet to his memory. 
*1759. Miscellaneous Tracts | relating to | Natural History, | Husbandry, 
| and | Physick. | Translated from the Latin, with Notes | by 
Benj. Stillingfleet. | [Quotations from Bacon and Linn'seus, 
8 lines.] | [Device.] | London, Printed : | And sold by R. & J. 
Dodsley, in Pall-Mall ; | S. Baker, in York Street, Covent-Garden ; 
| and M. Cooper, in Pater-noster-row. | — | mdcclix. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xxi +leaf contents + pp. 230. 
