Laurence Echard

He died at Lincoln, while on his way to Scarborough for the benefit of the waters, on 16 August 1730, and was buried in the chancel of St Mary Magdalen's Church on the 29th of that month.

[2] Echard translated Terence, some Plautus, and Pierre Joseph d'Orléans' History of the Revolutions in England.

His chief work is The History of England: from the first entrance of Julius Caesar and the Romans to the end of the reign of King James the First containing the space of 1678 years (several editions published by Jacob Tonson between 1707 and 1720), covering the period from the Roman occupation to his own times.

[3] This continued to be the standard work on the subject until Nicolas Tindal's translations and expansions of Rapin de Thoyras's French Histoire d'Angleterre ("History of England") began to appear in English in 1727.

In the preface, Echard said "The Title was given me by a very eminent Person, whom I forbear to name", and that the work was "partly design'd for all such as frequent Coffee-Houses, and other places for News",[6] that is, to help readers better understand the newspapers written by "gazetteers", an archaic term for journalists.