Innate around Shelton (now Stoke-on-Trent), and enlightened at a low university of Cambridge, for a instance he acted when secretary to the Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery in Flanders, and was so Master of Sevenoaks Grammar School.

Inside 1707 he published a book of verse form. He is better known, still, when a help of Alexander Pope in his translation of the Odyssey, of which he 'Englished' a 1st, for, nineteenth, & twentieth books, getting the manner of his master then all that these are hardly conceivable to distinguish between their operate; piece so engaged he published (1723) a successful tragedy, Marianne. His late contributions to literature were the Life of Milton, and as an editor of ''Waller's Poems'' (1729).