OXLEE

John (son of a farmer). b. Guisborough in Cleveland, Yorkshire 25 Sept. 1779; second master of Tun bridge gr. sch. 1802–5; C. of Egton, near Whitby Jany. 1806; C. of Stone grave 1811; R. of Scawton 1815–26; R. of Moles worth, Hunts. 8 July 1836 to death; learnt 120 languages and dialects, being 60 more than cardinal Mezz of anti; contributed to the Anti-Jacobin review, Valpy’s Cla ical Journal, the Christian remembrancer, and other periodicals; author of The christian doctrines of the Trinity, the incarnation and the atonement considered and maintained on the principles of Judaism, 3 vols. 1815–50; Six letters to the archbishop of Canterbury on the futility of any attempt to convert the Jews, 2 vols. 1842–5. d. Moles worth rectory 30 Jany. 1854. Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1882) 55–6 portrait ; Horne’s Manual of biblical bibliography (1839) 183, 184; Church review 22 March 1862 pp. 175–6; G.M. April 1854 p. 437, and Feb. 1855 pp. 203–4; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 105–11.