William Lowth

He was the son of William Lowth, an apothecary, who was burnt out in the Great Fire of London, and was born in the parish of St Martin, Ludgate on 3 September 1660.

Simon Lowth, rector of Tilehurst, Berkshire, and was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School[1] on 11 September 1672.

He was elected scholar of St John's College, Oxford, on 11 June 1675, and in due course became Fellow.

[2] Early work brought him to the notice of Peter Mews, Bishop of Winchester, who made him his chaplain, gave him a prebendal stall at Winchester on 8 October 1696, and presented him to the benefice of Buriton with Petersfield, Hampshire, in 1699, which he held until his death.

[2] His first published work was a ‘Vindication of the Divine Authority of the Old and New Testaments,’ London, 1692, a defence of the inspiration of holy scripture against the attacks of Jean Le Clerc.