[1] He revised William Robertson's New Testament[2] and added his own translation of the Epistle to the Romans.
He was baptised in 1741 at the Unitarian meeting house in Moor Street, Birmingham.
[3] He was a graduate of educated at Christ Church, Oxford, taking the degree of B.A.
In 1805 he issued proposals for printing by subscription a Hebrew and English edition of the Book of Common Prayer, an annotated edition of the Old and New Testaments in Hebrew and English, and 'A Volume of Sermons preached in the Parish Churches in and about the Cities of London and Westminster from 1780 to 1804.'
During the last forty years of his life he lived in or near London—in Whitehall, at Islington, and at Fulham, where he died on 30 May 1819.