Floyer Sydenham

Humphry II Sydenham (1591–1650), "Silver-Tongue Sydenham", of Combe, Dulverton, had become a Fellow of the newly founded Wadham College, founded posthumously by his fellow Somerset resident Nicholas II Wadham (1531–1609) and his wife.

He translated some of the Dialogues of Plato into English, and wrote a dissertation on Heraclitus, which failed to win appreciation.

[4] He published Notes on Plato, edited the Greater and Lesser Hippias; also a Dissertation on the Doctrine of Heraclitus, and Onomasticon Theologicum.

The translator Thomas Taylor wrote a widely published panegyric to Sydenham,[5] and completed his work on the Dialogues.

[2] His sad fate is said to have led to the foundation of the Royal Literary Fund,[2][6] due to "the sympathy aroused for poor authors by his death".