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 to him." In 1605 he composed an Eclog treating of Crownes and Garlandes, and dedicated it to James I., in which he gives some particulars of his family. He was engaged in the expedition to Cadiz in 1596. In 1603 he was knighted and granted the reversion of Master of the Revels. He died 22 Sept. 1623.

Besides his Eclog, Buc wrote a treatise on The Third Universitie of England, or a Treatise of the foundations of Colledges, Schools and Houses of Learning within and about the Citie of London, which was appended to Stow's Annals (1615), a work in which he refers to himself as a member of the Middle Temple, and wishes all honour and prosperity to the "House." A second edition of his Eclog was published in 1635, under the title of The Great Plantagenet.



Admitted 28 October, 1608.

He is described on the Register as "John Buckridge, S.T.D., President of St. John's College, Oxford, Archdeacon of Northampton, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to His Majesty," and was admitted the same day as Bishop Montagu (q.v.). He was the son of William Buckeridge, of Draycot Cerne, Wilts, where he was born about about 1562. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School (the founder of which. Sir Thomas White, was his ancestor), and Oxford, where he became President of St. John's College in 1605, and where he was the tutor of Laud. In 1596 he became chaplain to Archbishop Whitgift, through whom he was introduced to James I., after which his promotion was rapid, and he was consecrated Bishop of Rochester 9 June, 1611, whence he was transferred to Ely in 1628. He died 23 May, 1631. He was regarded as one of the leading "pulpit divines" of the day, and several of his sermons were printed. He published also a Latin treatise, De potestate Papæ (1616).

BUCKINGHAM, DUKE OF. See, and .



Admitted 30 April, 1770.

Third son of James Buller, of Kings Nympton, co. Devon. He was educated at Ottery St. Mary, living in the house of Rev. John Coleridge, the Vicar, the father of S. T. Coleridge. He entered the Middle from the Inner Temple, where he was admitted 8 Feb. 1763. He had a large practice as a Special Pleader, and is said to have been the originator of the "pupilizing system." He was called to the Bar 30 May, 1772, and in the same year published the first edition of his well-known work on Trials at Nisi Prius. He was engaged in many causes célèbres, amongst them the trials of the Duchess of Kingston and Horne Tooke. In 1777 he was made a King's Counsel, and in the following year a Judge of the King's Bench. He became a Baronet in 1790, and died 5 June, 1800.



Admitted 13 October, 1761.

Eldest son of Thomas Burgh, of Bert, co. Kildare, and grandson of Ulysses Burgh, Bishop of Ardagh. He possessed considerable property in Ireland, and represented Athy in Parliament as a Whig from 1769 to 1776, but subsequently joined the Tory party. He became a friend of Wilberforce, and an enthusiastic Slavery abolitionist; but what brought him chiefly into notice was