date, was born in Middlesex, in 1650, and died|tionate mourner for her death. About this time, in 1743. it is believed, he was elected F. R. S., and, with HOULIÈRES, Antoinette de la Garde des, a an intention of visiting Lisbon after the eart French lady, distinguished as a poetess and dra-quake, he at midsummer, 1756, set sail on board matic writer; she died in 1694. Her daugh-the Hanover packet, which was taken by a ter, who also possessed poetical talents, died in French privateer; and he behaved with so much hauteur, so much a l'Anglois to the captain of 1718. HOUSEMAN, Cornelius, a celebrated land-the privateer, as might probably be the cause of scape painter, of Antwerp, died in 1727. his suffering so severely as it appears he did, and HOUSEMAN, James, an eminent portrait perhaps what he suffered on this occasion and historical painter, of Antwerp, died in 1696. increased (if it did not first call forth) his syraHOUSSAYE. See AMELOT. pathy with the nhappy people." He afterHOUSTON, William, M. D., an eminent En-wards, it is believed, made the tour of Italy; glish physician, pupil to Boerhaave, died in the West Indies, in 1733. HOUSTON, John, a distinguished advocate for the revolution, was a member of congress in 1775, afterwards a judge of the supreme court, and governor of the state of Georgia; he died in 1796. HOUTEVILLE, Claude Francis, a native of Paris, who wrote an admirable work, called "La Verite de la Religion Chretienne prouvee par les Faits," died in 1742, aged 54. and at his return, settled at Brokenhurst, a retired and pleasant villa in the New Forest, near Lymington, in Hampshire; having, April 25, 1758, married Harriet, only daughter of Edward Leeds, esq., of Croxton, in Cambridgeshire. Mrs. H. died in 1765, in childbed. After the death of his second wife, he left Lymington, and purchased an estate at Cardington, near Bedford, where he very much conciliated the esteem of the poor, by employing them, building cottages for them. &c. In 1773, he served the office of sheriff of the county of Bedford. This office, as he observes, brought "the disnotice;" and with a view to its alleviation, he HOVEDEN, Roger de, an early English historian, whose annals commenced where those of Bede terminated; he lived in the age of Hen-tress of prisoners more immediately under his ry II. HOVEY, Ivory, minister of Plymouth, Mass.began his labours by "visiting most of the He left a journal which contained about 7,000 octavo pages, and died in 1803. HOW, William, an officer in the royal army, during the civil wars in England, afterwards a physician and botanist of distinction in London; he died in 1656. HOWARD, Charles, earl of Nottingham, an intrepid English admiral, commander-in-chief at the defeat of the Spanish Armada, born in 1536, died in 1624. county jails in England," and afterwards" the bridewells, houses of correction, city and town jaiis," where he found "multitudes, both of felons and debtors, dying of the jail fever and the small-pox." Upon this subject he was examined in the house of commons, in March, 1774, when he had the honour of their thanks." This encouraged him to proceed in his design: he travelled again and again through Great Britain and Ireland, and also into France, Flanders, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland; and published "The State of the Prisons in HOWARD, Sir Robert, an English historian and dramatic poet, died about 1698. There was one Edward Howard, esq., likewise a descend-England and Wales, with preliminary observaant of the same family, who exposed himself to the satirists by writing bad plays. HOWARD, Henry, earl of Surrey, a brave general and esteemed poet, born in 1520, was beheaded on a suspicion of his designing to wed the princess Mary, and thereby aspiring to the crown. 1554. tions, and an account of some foreign prisons, 1777." In 1780, he published an Appendix to this Account, in which he extended the narra tive of his travels to Italy, and gave some observations on the management of prisoners of war, and the hulks on the Thames. This Appendix he republished, in 1784; which publicaHOWARD, Thomas, earl of Surrey, and tion included also an account of his visit to duke of Norfolk, lord high admiral of England, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Portugal, in the reign of Henry VIII., distinguished for and Spain. By this time his character for a his services as a naval officer, and as a soldier, attive benevolence had engaged the public attenthe battle of Floddenfield, and afterwards as tion, and it was proposed that a subscriptio viceroy of Ireland; he narrowly escaped the should be set on foot, to erect a statue to his ho capricious tyranny of that prince, and died in nour. This idea was so well received, that in 15 or 16 months, 615 persons subscribed 15331. HOWARD, Edward, a brave and celebrated 13s. 6d. ; but some of those who knew Mr. HowEnglish admiral, brother to the preceding, wasard best never concurred in the scheme, being killed in an action with a French ship, in 1514. well assured that he would never countenance HOWARD, John, was born at Hackney, in nor accede to it: and the event justified their Middlesex, in the year 1726, and put apprentice conduct; for the language that he held upon to Mr. Nathaniel Newnham, a wholesale gro- the subject, when first advised of it, was, "Ilave cer, in Watling-street. His constitution was not I one friend in England that would put a thought very weak, and his health appeared to stop to such a proceeding?" In consequence have been injured by the necessary duties of his of two letters from Mr. Howard himself to apprenticeship; at the expiration of it, there- the subscribers, the design was laid aside. In fore, he took an apartment in a lodging-house, 1789, Mr. H. published "An Account of the in Stoke, Newington, kept by a Mrs. Sarah principal Lazarettos in Europe, with various Lardeau, a widow, by whom he was nursed papers relative to the plague, together with with the utmost care and attention. At length further Observations on some Foreign Prisons he became so fond of his landlady, that they and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the were privately married, about the year 1752. present State of those in Great Britain and Ire She was possessed of a small fortune, which he land," with a great number of curious plates presented to her sister. This wife, however Not satisfied, however, with what he had alrea died in 1755, and he was a sincere and affec-dv done, he concludes his "Account of Laza Familiar Letters Domestic and Foreign, partly rettos" with announcing his intention again to quit his country, for the purpose of revisiting Aussia, Turkey, and some other countries, and extending his tour in the East. On this tour, however, he fell a victim to his humanity; for, having visited a young lady at Cherson, sick of an epidemic fever, for the purpose of administering some medical assistance, he caught the HOW LL, William, a civilian, of Oxford, distemper himself, and was carried off in 12 and chancellor of Lincoln, died in 1688. The days, Jan. 20, 1790. The name of Howard will works that he has left behind him are, among ive in the remembrance of those who have others," Medulla Historia Anglicane;" a been rescued, by his excrtions, from the gloomy" History of the World from the earliest Times horrors of confinement, which might otherwise to the Ruin of the Roman Empire;" and "Elehave been unlimited; alleviated in the pangs of menta Historiæ Civilis." disease, which might have been irremediable; HOWELL, David, an eminent lawyer, of and comforted in the still more agonizing re- Rhode-Island, was a member of congress, atproaches of conscious guilt, which would inevi-torney-general, and judge of the supreme court tably have terminated in destruction. A statue of that state, professor of mathematics, and afto Mr. Howard's memory has been erected in terwards of law, in Brown university, and a St. Paul's cathedral. judge of the district court of the United States, for that district. He died in 1824. HOWARD, Francis, earl of Effingham, governor of the colony of Virginia, in 1684. After an unpopular administration of five years, he returned to England, and died in 1700. HOWARD, Simeon, D. D., minister in Boston; he took a deep interest in the American revolution, and died in 1804. HOWELL, Richard, governor of New-Jersey, in 1793, to which office he was elected eight years successively; he died in 1802. HOYLE, Edmund, author of some celebrated treatises on the games of Whist, Quadrille, &c., born in 1672, died in 1769. HOWARD, Benjamin, a member of congress, HOZIER, Peter d', an eminent French geneafrom Kentucky, afterwards governor of the ter-logist, and counsellor of state under Lewis XIV.; ritory of Upper Louisiana, was a brigadier-general in the army of the United States, during the last war; he died in 1814. HOWE, John, an English non-conformist divine, eminent for his learning, moderation, and great virtues; he died in 1705. HOWE, John, an English statesman, and member of parliament, was a privy counsellor, in the reign of Anne. He died in 1721. ་ he died at Paris, in 1660. HOZIER, Francis, a brave English admiral, died in 1727. HUBBARD, William, minister of Ipswich, Mass., author of a history of New England in manuscript; he died in 1704. HUBER, Samuel, a native of Berne, was professor of divinity, at Wittemberg, in 1592. HUBER, Ulric, a Dutch lawyer, professor of HUARTE, John, a native of French Navarre, though he usually passes for a Spaniard, lived in the 16th century, and gained great fame by a work that he published in the Spanish tongue, upon a very curious and interesting subject, viz. to show the gifts and different abilities of HOWE, Richard, earl, a famous British ad-men, and for what kind of study the genius of miral, born in 1725. At 14 he entered the na-every man is adapted. This book has been vy; and at the early age of 20 was appointed translated into several languages. Its title is captain of the Baltimore sloop, in which he" The Trial of Wits." attacked two French frigates of 30 guns each, and obliged them to sheer off. Our limits prevent us from tracing this brave man through all his exploits; but, being presented to the king, by lord ke, after the memorable victory o Conflans, in 1759, his majesty said, " My lord Howe, your life has been one continued se-law and history, at Franeker; he died in 1694. ries of services to your country.' 7." In brief, we His writings were on subjects connected with may say the same thing of the latter period of his profession. his existence. In 1782 he was sent to the relief HUBER, Mary, a native of Geneva, distinof Gibraltar, a service which he performed in guished as a writer. She died at Lyons, in 1753, the most admirable manner in the sight of the HUBER, John Rudolph, a portrait and histohostile fleet, which he in vain challenged to bat-rical painter, of Basil; he died in 1748, aged 80. tle. In 1793, his lordship took the command of the channel fleet; and in 1794, totally vanquished one of the most powerful flects that France had ever equipped for sea, and brought home HUBNER, John, of Saxony, was professor seven ships of the line, besides smaller vessels.of geography, at Leipsic, and rector of the On this glorious occasion their majesties, with three of the princesses, paid him a visit on board his ship, at Spithead; when the king presented him with a magnificent sword, enriched with diamonds, a gold chain, and a medal; and the HUDSON, Captain Henry, an eminent Engthanks of both houses of parliament, the free-lish navigator, who flourished in high fame, in dom of London, and the universal acclamations the beginning of the 17th century, having discoof the nation, followed these acknowledgments vered Hudson's bay at the north of Canada, of the sovereign. Earl Howe died in 1799, and and the river in New-York, which has since a handsome monument is crected to his memo-borne his name. He is supposed to have perry, in St. Paul's cathedral. ished at sea, being set adrift in a shallop by HOWELL, James, an English political and his mutinous crew, in 1611. historical writer, and poet, born in Caermarthen- HUDSON, Thomas, a painter, born at Exeshire, in 1596, died in 1666. Of his very nume-ter, in 1701, had Sir Joshua Reynolds for a schorous works, the best arc "Dodona's Grove, or, lar, by whom he was eclipsed in the art. Ilę the Vocal Forest," and "Epistolæ Ho Eliana: died in London, in 1779. HUBERT, Matthew, a preacher, and priest of the oratory of Paris, distinguished for his eloquence; he died in 1717. school at Hamburgh, where he died in 1731. HUDDE, John, a burgomaster of Amsterdam, eminent as a mathematician, and known also as a politician; he died in 1704. HUDSON, Dr. John, an eminent English critic, and keeper of the Bodleian library, and principal of St. Mary-hall, Oxford; he died in 1719. HUDSON, William, an eminent_botanist, born in Westmoreland, about 1730. In 1762 he published "Flora Anglica," and died in 1793. HUET, Peter Daniel, bishop of Avrances, in France, and a celebrated philosophical, historical, and commercial writer, born at Caen, in 1630, and died in 1721. HUFNAGEL, George, a native of Antwerp, distinguished as a writer on natural history, and of Latin poetry; he died in 1600. HUGH CAPET, count of Paris and Orleans, was raised to the throne of France by his merits and courage, in 987, and thus became the head of the third race of the French monarchy; he died in 996. HUGHES, John, an English poet, dramatic author, and essayist, born at Marlborough, in 1677, died in 1720. His last work was "The Siege of Damascus," a tragedy, which is still occasionally acted. Several papers in the "Tattlers,' "Spectators," and "Guardians," were written by him. HUGHES, Jabez, younger brother of the preceding, distinguished as a scholar, and as a translator from the Latin and Spanish; he died in 1731. HUGHES, Jabez, of Cambridge, known as the editor of Chrysostom's treatise on the Priesthood; he died in 1712. HUMPHREY, Lawrence, an English writer, was professor of divinity, and president of Magdalen college, Oxford, and afterwards dean of Gloucester, and of Winchester; he died in 1590. HUMPHREYS, David, LL. D., a soldier of the revolution, aid-de-camp, successively, to Putnam, Greene, and Washington; afterwards, ambassador from the United States to Lisbon, and minister plenipotentiary to Spain; he died at New-Haven, in 1818. He rendered essential service to his country, by his poetical and patriotic writings, which were read and admired, both here and in Europe; also, by the introduc tion, into the United States, of a valuable breed of fine-wooled sheep, from Spain. HUNNERIC, king of the African Vandals, known for his severe persecution of the Christians, died in 484. HUNNIADES, John Corvinus, a general of the Hungarian armies in the 13th century, and was distinguished for his bravery, and his great success in the wars with the Turks; he died in 1456, lamented by the pope, by the Christians, and even by the infidels. HUNNIUS, Giles, a distinguished Lutheran divine, professor of divinity at Marpurg, and afterwards at Wittemberg; he died in 1603. HUNT, Walter, an English carmelite, known for his opposition to the union between the Greek and Latin churches; he died in 1470. HUNT, Jeremiah, D. D., an English clergyman and theological writer, died in 1744. HUNTER, Robert, author of the celebrated HUGO, of Cluni, abbot of Cluni, and a saint" Letter on Enthusiasm," which has been asof the Romish calendar, died in 1609. cribed to Swift, and still more commonly to the HUGO, Herman, a learned jesuit, who wrote earl of Shaftesbury. He wrote also a farce, on metaphysical subjects, and was also distin-called "Androboros," and died governor of Jaguished in his time as a poet, was born at Brus-maica, in 1734. sels, in 1588, and died of the plague, at Rhimberg, in 1629. HUGO, Charles Lewis, a French and Latin writer, abbot of Etival, and titular bishop of Ptolemais; he died in 1735. HUGTENBURGH, John Van, an eminent Dutch painter, died in 1733. His brother, James, was a landscape painter of reputation. He died in 1696. HULDRIC, John James, professor of law, at Zurich, where he died in 1731. HULL, Thomas, a respectable actor and dramatic writer, and founder of the theatrical fund for the relief of distressed actors and actresses, was bred to the practice of physic, but quitted that profession for the stage, of which he died the father, at the age of 80, in 1808. HUNTER, William, M. D., a most celebrated English physician and anatomist, born in 1718, died in 1783. The most splendid of Dr. Hunter's medical publications is, "The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus." His Anatomical Museum was the most complete of all the private ones in Europe, and was collected by him at the expense of upwards of 20,0002. HUNTER, John, younger brother of the preceding, a very eminent English surgeon, and anatomical writer, born in 1728, died suddenly in 1793. At the age of 20 he began, as assistant to his brother, the career that ended in his becoming, both in theory and practice, the first surgeon in the world. His anatomical researches were various, persevering, and successful: with the office, use, situation, or communication, of the several parts of the human structure, no man was better acquainted; and his numerous writings may be considered as a basis on which HULSEMANN, John a Lutheran divine, the whole art of physic may securely rest. Mr. professor of divinity at Leipsic, and a theolo-Hunter's most valuable treatises may be found gical writer; he died in 1661. in the "Philosophical Transactions," from the 62d to the 82d volumes. HULME, Nathaniel, an English physician of reputation, and author of several essays on medical subjects; he died in 1807. HULSIUS, Anthony, a distinguished oriental scholar, and professor of divinity at Leyden; be died in 1685. HULSIUS, Henry, a theological writer, and professor at Douisburgh, where he died, in 1723. HULST, Peter Van der, an excellent painter of animals, a native of Dort; he died in 1708, HUNTER, Anne, widow of Mr. John Hunter, the anatomist, was distinguished as the author of several beautiful poems, and as the intimate friend of the celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth Carter; she died in 1802. HUNTER, Dr. Henry, an eminent presby HUME, David, a celebrated philosopher and terian divine, equally admired for his pulpit elohistorian, born at Edinburgh, in 1711, and died quence, and beloved for his benevolence, was in 1776. His "Essays," and "History of Eng-born at Culross, in Perthshire, in 1741, and died land," are so well known, as scarcely to need mention. The latter has, undoubtedly, the preference, in the public mind, over every other extant. The former are very strongly tinctured with infidelity. at Bristol, in 1802. His works are numerous, but the most important are translations. Hia principal original publication is a course of ser mons, in 6 vols. 8vo., entitled "Sacred Biogra. phy." "The most distinguished of bis transla tions are, "St. Pierre's Studies of Nature ;" tiation, and defender of Wickliffe, and was "Sonnini's Travels in Egypt;" "Saurin's Ser-burnt alive by the council of Constance, in mons;" and the "Physiognomical Essays of 1415. Lavater." HUSSEY, Giles, a most ingenious English HUNTINGDON, Selina, countess dowager portrait painter, in 1710, died suddenly, while of, daughter of Washington, earl Ferrers, was working in his garden at Beaston, Ashburton, born in 1707, married in 1728, Theophilus earl Devonshire, in 1788. Professor Barry, in his Huntingdon, by whom she had issue four sons noble painting, which adorns the large room at and three daughters, and died in 1791. Her the Society of Arts in the Adelphi, has thought ladyship had been a widow 45 years; and her Mr. Hussey entitled to an eminent place in his great religious concerns, as head of a very nu- Elysium, and has introduced him behind Phimerous sect in Great Britain and Ireland, she left dias; observing, that his abilites were calculated by will in the hands of committees for man- to have raised his country to an immortal repu aging them in both kingdoms. Her religious tation (but for the professional envy and ranprinciples have been long since known; and cour of a wretched cabal), and that he appeared her unbounded benevolence bore the best testi- no less amiable as a man, than he was admiramony of the purity of her intentions; having, ble as an artist. in the course of her life, expended above 100,0007. in public and private acts of charity. His HUTCHESON, Dr. Francis, a very fine writer on moral philosophy, and an excellent man, HUNTINGTON, Henry of, an English chro- born in Ireland, in 1694, died in 1747. nicler of the 12th century; he wrote a history" Moral Philosophy" was published at Glasgow of England from the earliest accounts to the in 1755. death of king Stephien. HUNTINGTON, Robert, a learned English divine, and writer of travels, born in 1636, died in 1701. HUNTINGTON, Joseph, D. D., minister of Coventry, Conn., author of " Calvinism Improv-|| ed," which was answered by Dr. Strong, of Bradford, Conn.; he died in 1795. HUTCHINS, John, author of the history, and antiquities of Dorsetshire; he died in 1773. HUTCHINS, Thomas, geographer general of the United States; he published several maps, and died at Pittsburgh, in 1789. HUTCHINSON, Aun, an artful woman in Massachusetts, whose religious opinions were heretical, and which were condemned by a counHUNTINGTON, Samuel, an eminent lawyer cil of ministers: she was banished from the coof Connecticut, was a member of congress from lony, and was murdered by the Indians, west of that state, in 1776, and a signer of the declara-New-Haven, in 1643. tion of Independence; afterwards a judge and HUTCHINSON, Thomas, governor of Massachief justice of the supreme court, and lieuten-chusetts, odious for his arbitrary conduct in ant governor of the state; he died in 1796. bis office; he published a History of the Colony of Massachusetts, &c., and died in England, in 1780. HUNTINGTON, Samuel, a native of Connecticut, removed to Ohio, in 1801, and was afterwards, chief justice of the supreme court, and governor of that state; he died in 1817. HUNTINGTON, Jedediah, a general, and a distinguished officer in the American army during the revolution, afterwards treasurer of the state of Connecticut, and collector of the customs for the port of New-London; he died HUTCHINSON, John, an English philosophical and critical author, celebrated as the opponent of Dr. Woodward in natural history, and of Sir Isaac Newton in philosophy; he was born in Yorkshire, in 1674, and died in 1737. HUTCHINSON, John Hely, a celebrated Irish lawyer and statesman; not a little remark able for his avidity after lucrative offices. BeHUNTORST, Gerard, one of the best Dutching at one and the same time a privy-counsellor, painters of the 16th century. in 1818. HURD, Dr. Richard, bishop of Worcester. His "Dialogues on Chivalry and Romance," "Sermons at Lincoln's Inn Chapel," and "Life and Works of Bishop Warburton," are his principal literary productions. In 1783, on the death of archbishop Cornwallis, Dr. Hurd, who had been preceptor to the prince of Wales and the duke of York, was offered the primacy; but requested of the king permission to decline it. He died in 1808, in the Euth year of his age. HURDIS, Dr. James, a learned divine, and all very pleasing poet, born at Bishopstone, Sussex, in 1763, died at Buckland, in Berkshire, in 1801. Dr. Hurdis was poetry professor in the university of Oxford. His principal poems are, "The Village Curate," "The Favourite Village," "Sir Thomas More," a tragedy, and "Adriano; or, The First of June." He also published "Twelve Dissertations on the Nature and Occasion of Psalm and Prophecy." HURE, Charles, a French divine, was professor of languages in the university of Paris, and afterwards principal of the college of Bencourt. He wrote a Dictionary of the Bible, &c., and died in 1717. HUSS, John, a celebrated German reformer|| and martyr, born in Bohemia, in 1376. He was the first opposer of the doctrine of transubstan reversionary secretary of state, major of the 4th regiment of horse, provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and searcher, packer, and gauger of the port of Strangford. A late British minister, lord North, made the following remark on him: "If England and Ireland were given to this man, he would solicit the Isle of Man for a potato garden." Mr. Hutchinson was born in 1715, and died in 1794. HUTTEN, Ulric de, a satirical writer, of Germany, distinguished for his zeal in support of the reformation, his hostility to the church of Rome, and the eccentricity and profligacy of his private life; he died on an island in the lake of Zurich, in 1528. HUTTEN, Jacob, a native of Silesia, founder of an anabaptist sect, called the Moravian brethren; the time of his death is not known, although it is said, he was burnt as a heretic. HUTTER, Elias, a protestant divine, distinguished as a learned orientalist; he died at Nuremburg, in 1602. HUTTER, Leonard, a learned German divine, professor of theology, at Wittemberg, and rector of the university there; he died in 1616. HUTTON, Matthew, professor of divinity in Cambridge, bishop of Durham, and afterwards archbishop of York; he died in 1605. HUTTON, William, the historian of Bir mingham, and author of various other works,ing out of that chair, where Ammonias, Kierowas born at Derby, in 1723, and died at Ben-cles, and many great and celebrated philoso nett's Hill, near Birmingham, in 1815, aged 92. HUXHÁM, Dr., an English physician, who made some improvements in medicine, which still bear his name; he died in 1763. HUYGENS, Constantine, secretary to the prince of Orange, and president of his council, was the author of 14 books of Latin poems, &c. He died in 1687. HUYGENS, Christian, a very celebrated Dutch mathematician and astronomer, born at the Hague, in 1629, and died in 1695. HUYSUM, Justus Van, an eminent Dutch painter, born at Amsterdam, died in 1716. HUYSUM, John Van, son of the preceding, was also distinguished as a painter; as were his two brothers. He died in 1749. phers had taught; and this at a time too, when men of immense learning abounded, both at Alexandria, and in many other parts of the Roman empire. She was murdered, A. D. 415. HYPERIDES, a disciple of Plato, who procured the banishment of Demosthenes from Athens; he was put to death by Antipater, 322 B. C. HYPERIUS, Andrew Gerard, a divine, who embraced the doctrines of the reformation, and was divinity professor at Marpurg, died in 1564. HYPSICLES, a mathematician, of Alexandria, under Marcus Aurelius. HYRCANUS, John, prince and high-priest of the Jews, after his father. He restored his nation to independence, from the power of Antiochus, HYDE, Edward, earl of Clarendon, and chan-king of Syria, and died 106 B. C. He was succellor of England, born in Dinton, in Wiltshire, ceeded by his son of the same name, who died in 1608, and died in 1674. His name is immor- 30 B. C. talized by his "History of the Rebellion," in HYWELL, ap Owain, a prince of North the time of Charles I. He was afterwards, how-Wales; he died in 1171. ever, impeached of high treason, and fled to France, where he died. HYDE, Henry, earl of Clarendon, son to the chancellor, born in 1638, died in 1709. His "State Letters," during his government of Ireland, and his "Diary," for the years 1687 to 1690, were published in 1763, from the Clarendon press, in Oxforu. HYDE, Dr. Thomas, an eminent divine, and professor of the oriental languages, born in 1636. He published, beside other things, "A catalogue of the books in the Bodleian library;" "De Ludis orientalibus libro duo," a work which is held, at present, in very high esteem and "The religion of the ancient Persians," a work of profound and various erudition, abounding with many new lights, on the most curious and interesting subjects. He died in 1703. HYDE, Lawrence, viscount Hyde, and earl of Rochester, was the second son of the chancellor, and was always employed about the court, either as a member of the cabinet, or as an ambassador abroad. He died in 1711, with the reputation of an able statesman. HYDE, Edward, was lieutenant governor, and governor of the colony of North Carolina; he died in 1712. HYDER-ALI-KHAN, an Asiatic prince, son of the king of Mysore, and himself sovereign of Suba of Servia, was distinguished for his intrepidity, and for his hostility to the Europeans, whom he considered as intruders in the country, and whom he invariably opposed; he died in 1782, and was succeeded by his son, Tippoo Saib. HYGINUS, Caius Julius, the freedman of Augustus, was the author of several Latin works. HYGINUS, a philosopher, of Athens, was pope of Rome in 153; he suffered martyrdom, and was canonized. HYLL, Albayn, an English physician and medical writer, died at London, in 1559. HYWELL, ap Morgan, a prince of Glamorgan, in Wales, died in 1043, aged 130. HYWELL, Dda, or Good, a legislator of Wales, died in 948. I IAMBLICUS, an Arabian king, was deprived of his dominions by the Romans, but his son was restored 22 B. C. IAMBLICUS, a Greek author, in the age of Marcus Aurelius. IARCHI, Solomon Ben Isaac, an illustrious Jewish rabbi, was born in France, in 1104, aud died in 1180. IARCHAS, a learned Indian philosopher. IBARRA, Joachim, eminent as a printer to the king of Spain, died in 1785. IBAS, bishop of Edessa, a Nestorian, was banished in 449, and restored in 451. IBBOT, Benjamin, a learned English divine, and chaplain to the king, died in 1725. IBEK, Cotheddin, a slave, who usurped the throne of India, after the death of his master. IBEK, Azzeddin, an officer in the Egyptian court, who married the Sultan's widow, and ascended his throne, but was assassinated A. D. 1257. IBEK, an Arabian author, who died in 1348. IBRAHIM IMAM, a Mahometan chief-priest, murdered by the caliph Marvan, in 748. IBRAHIM, son of Massoud, was the eighth caliph of the race of the Gaznevides; he died in 1098. IBRAHIM, brother of Haroun Raschid, was made caliph of Bagdad in 817, and died in 859. IBRAHIM, a learned mussulman doctor, of Shiraz. IBRAHIM, son of Achmet, succeeded his brother as emperor of Turkey, in 1640, and was assassinated in 1649. IBRAHIM, Effendi, a Pole, established a printing press in Turkey.' HYPATIA, a most beautiful, virtuous, and IBYCUS, a Greek lyric poet, flourished about learned lady of antiquity, daughter of Theon, 540 B. C. He was murdered by robbers; and who governed the Platonic school at Alexandria, in his dying moments he observed cranes flying the place of her birth and education, in the lat-over his head, whom he implored to be his ter part of the 4th century. Socrates tells us, avengers. His murderers walking in Rhegium that Hypatia" arrived at such a pitch of learn- some time afterwards, and seeing some cranes ing, as very far to exceed all the philosophers of in the air, one of them said to his companions, her time." But our notions of Hypatia will be" there come the witnesses of Ibycus death." prodigiously heightened, when we consider her They were overheard, tried, and executed. succeeding her father, as she actually did, in the IDACIUS, a Spanish prelate, and an author government of the Alexandrian school: teach-of the 5th century. |