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 Theophrastus," and wrote two dissertations on the pronunciation of Greek. He died August 7, 1769.

[See "Gentleman's Magazine," 1769, "Nichols's Literary Anecdotes," and "Master's Corpus Christi College."]

JOHN GIBBON

HERALDIC WRITER,

An ancestor of the famous historian, Edward Gibbon, was a Kentish man, though some biographers represent him as born in London. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and for some time served as a soldier in France, the Netherlands and Virginia. Then, becoming known to Dugdale, he obtained the appointment of Norroy King-at-Arms. He published several heraldic works, the best known of which, "Introductio ad Latinam Blasoniam," or an attempt to define in Roman idiom the terms and attributes of Heraldry, appeared in 1682.

[See "Gentleman's Magazine" (1802 and 1806); "Noble's History of the College of Arms."]

THOMAS [SIC] GLOVER

HERALDIC WRITER,

Was born at Ashford in 1543. He was made Portcullis, and afterwards Somerset Herald. He assisted Camden in his pedigrees for his Britannia; Powell in his history of Wales; and made a collection of funeral inscriptions upon the monuments in Kent. He died in 1588. His