A biographical, historical and chronological dictionary: containing accurate accounts of the lives, characters, and actions, of the most eminent persons of all ages and all countries; : including the revolutions of states, and the succession of sovereign princes / By John Watkins.

Watkins, John, active 1792-1831.

Date:: 1807

Credit: A biographical, historical and chronological dictionary: containing accurate accounts of the lives, characters, and actions, of the most eminent persons of all ages and all countries; : including the revolutions of states, and the succession of sovereign princes / By John Watkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$1 am’* monument in Guildhall. The year following he became a royal academician, and completed a beautiful- monument to the memory of Mrs. Draper, in Bristol ca- thedral. His other works are too numerous to be specified; suffice it to mention the principal, which are two groupes for the top of Somerset-house ; a statue of judge Blackstone for All Souls college, Oxter'd; another of Henry VI. for Eton college; cathedral by the bishop of that church. Aft< I the monument of lord Chatham in West- serving a curacy in Devonshire lor a littil minster .abbey ; and Dr Johnson’s and Mr. time he went to Bath, and became assist;*. > i Howard’s in St, Paul’s cathedral. Mr. Ba- at the octagon chapeL _ He died at Loaddl con died of an inflammation in his bowels, in 178S. Mr. Badcock is best:lcno\vn by hjl in 1709. He was an estimable private cha- Critiques in the Monthly Review r n M racter, and of distinguished piety, as the dan’s 'I'helypthor r Priesdey s . <..stoi|| after which heofficiated to a congregationail Winbcurp, in Dorsetshire, from whence h<| removed to Barnstaple in 1769, where hjl cultivated polite literature, and shook oi 1 the prejudices of Calvinism. In consequentJ of a disagreement between him and hil congregation he returned to his nativij place, where he officiated to the dissente- j till 17B7, when he was ordamed in F.xeuj inscription which he ordered to be placed over his>grave evinces : viz. “ What I was as an artist seemed to me of some impor- tance while I lived; but what I really was as a believer in Christ Jesus is the only thing of importance to rne now.” He wrote Of the Corruptions of Christianity, &C.arl by the considerable share which he had f Dr. White’s Bampton Lectures. He wav| man of great livelinesss, taste, and lear 5 ing.—Europ. Mag. Baden (James), a Danish writer, a Latin ih earticle Sculpture, in Rees’s Cyclopaedia, professor of eloquence and t —Life by Cecil, 1801. * guage in the university of Cc, e-ih ca, Bacontiiorpe, or Bacon (John), an which situation he was appomte-u in 1 / English monk in the 13th century, was born in Norfolk. He was called the resolute doctor, and wrote Commentaries on the Four Books of Sentences, a Compendium of the Law of Christ, &c. He died in London in 1346.—Biog. Br. - Bacoue (Leo), a French divine, was at first a protectant, but on becoming a Fran- ciscan, he was made bishop of Pamiers. He wrote a Latin poem on the education of a prince, and died in 1694, aged 94.— Moreri. Bacquerre (Benedict de), a physician of the 1-7th century, who wrote a book, enti- tled Senum Medipus, printed at Cologne in 1673.—-Ibid. ' BACQUET,advocatetothe king of France. He wrote some learned pieces on the law, which were published at Lyons, in 2 vols. folio, 1744. • He died in 1597.—Nouv. Bid. Hist. Bacti§hua (George Ebn), a Christian physician, was very 'eminent at the court of the caliph Almanzor, w ho understanding that he had an old woman for his wife, sent him three beautiful girls and a large sum, as a p esent. BactLhua sent back the girls, and told the caliph that his religion prohi- bited his having more than one wife at a time ; which so pleased Almanzor that he loaded him with presents, and permitted Fie devoted a great portion of his time f advancing the Danish language to improy | meat. He published a German and Dam j Dictionary, a translation of Tacitus, a;j other esteemed works. He died in 1805-1 Monthly Mag. Bade (Francis), an historical and pc j trait painter, was born at Antwerp in 15 f and died in 1603.—Piltington. Badf.w (Richard de), the founder \ Clare hall, Cambridge, was born at Bade! in Essex. In 1326 he was chancellor of Cal bridge, and the same year laid the fo- jj dation of a building to which, he gave t j name of University hall; which bemg bu j down was rebuilt by the daughter oi Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, wj named it Clare-hall.—B-og. Br. Eadile (Antony), an Italian painter, vj born at Verona in 1430, and died in 1.- His portraits bore a great resemblance real life.—Piltingion. Baduel (Claude), a French protest divine, was born at Nisrr.es. In 1557 went to Switzerland, taught phildsoj j and mathematics, and exercised his nu| till his death in 1.361. FIis worRs try chiefly theological.—Bayle. BearsiuS, or Vekenstil (Henry- printer and mathematician of Louvain ^ the 16th century, who published Tabic j the Longitudes and Latitudes of the j him to return to his own country of Kho „ rasan. His son Gabriel was physician to nets, 1528, and other works. Moron, j Haroun al Raschid, and held in great estir Baerstrat, a Dutch painter of sea pyJ mation by that caliph.—B' Herbelot. and fish, died in 16S<. His pieces are Ba dak sc hi, a Persian popt, who lived under the caliph Moctafi. A collection of moral poems by him is exant..—Ibid. Badasch, an Arabian grammarian, died in the year of the Hegira 528.—Ibid. Badcock (Samuel), an English divine, was born at South Moulton in Devonshire, in 1747. He was educated among the dis- senters at St. Mary Ottcry, in that county, and in great esteem.—Houbraten. . Bav-karkah, or Abu Zohal, an Aralj commentator on Euclid.—Gm. B D. J Baodf.djn (Mohammed), an Ara* mathematician of the lOth century \ i wrote a treatise on the Division of Su] ficies, a Latin version of which was I lished by John Dee.— Voss, dc Math.' Bagford (John), an antiquary, w$