b. 25 May 1764. d. 2 January 1827. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, translator, dramatist, essayist, and surgeon. Began writing as a means to pay
financial debts. Helped found the General Pharmaceutic Association in 1794. Editor
of the *Critical Review*. Compiled a twelve-volume encyclopaedia, *Pantologia*, with
Olinthus Gregory. Raised as a congregationalist, but converted to Unitarianism in
the 1790s. Biographical information: *ODNB*. (KH)