1785 William Whitehead, Poet Laureat; poems and plays. Died April 14. Reverend Richard Burn, LL.D. author of the Justice of Peace, Ecclefiaftical Laws, &c. Died Nov. 20.

Richard Glover, Efq; Leonidas, Medea, &c. Died Nov. 25.

1786 Jonas Hanway, Efq; travels, mifcellaneous. Died Sept. 5, aged 74. 1787 Dr. Robert Lowth, bishop of London; criticifm, divinity, grammar. Died

Nov. 3.

Soame Jenyns, Efq; Internal Evidence of the Chriftian Religion, and other pieces.
Died Dec. 18.

1738 James Stuart, Efq; celebrated by the name of " Athenian Stuart." Died Feb. 1. Thomas Gainsborough, Efq; the celebrated painter. Died Aug. 2.

Thomas Sheridan, Eiq; English Dictionary, works on education, elocution, &c.
Died Aug. 14.

William Julius Mickle, Efq; tranflator of the Lufiad. Died Oct. 25.

1789 Dr. William Cullen; Practice of Phyfic, Materia Medica, &c. Died Feb. 5. 1790 Benjamin Franklin, Efq. Bofton, New England; electricity, natural philofophy, mifcellanies. Died April 17.

Rev. Thomas Warton, B. D. Poet Laureat; Hiftory of English Poetry, poems.
Died April 21.

Dr. Adam Smith, Scotland; Moral Sentiments, Inquiry into the Wealth of Na
tions.

John Howard, Efq. Middlefex; Account of Prifons and Lazarettos, &c. 1791 Rev. Dr. Richard Price, Glamorganshire; on Morals, Providence, Civil Liberty, Annuities, Reverfionary Payments, Sermons, &c. Died Feb. 19, aged 68

Dr. Thomas Blacklock, Annandale; Poems, Confolations from natural and revealed Action. Died July, aged 70. 1792 Sir Joshua Reynolds, Devonshire; Prefident of the Royal Academy of Painting; Difcourfes on Painting delivered before the Academy. Died Feb. 23, aged 68.

John Smeaton, Yorkshire; Civil Engineer; Mechanics, Edyftone Lighthouse,
Ramfgate Harbour, and other public works of ucility.

1793 Rev. Dr. William Robertton, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and Hitoriographer to his Majehy for Scotland; History of Scotland, of the Reign of Charles V. Hiftory of America, and Hiftorical Difquifition concerning India. Died June 11, aged 72.

John Hunter, Efq. Surgeon Extraordinary to the King, and Surveyor General to the Army; Anatomy. Died Aug. 16.

1794 Edward Gibbon, Efq. Hiftory of the Roman Empire, &c. Died Jan. 16. James Bruce, Efq. of Kinnaird; Travels into Abyffinia.

1795 Dr. Alexander Gerard; Effay on Tafte, fermons. Died Feb. 22.

Sir William Jones, one of the judges of India, and prefident of the Afiatic Society; feveral law Tracts, tranflation of Ifæus, and of the Moallakat, or Seven Arabian poems, and many valuable papers in the Afiatic researches.

N. B. By the Dates is implied the Time when the above Writers died; but avhen that Period happens not to be known, the age in which they flourished is fignified by fl. The names in Italics, are thofe who have given the best English Tranfla mons, exclufive of School-Books.

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