[537] William Jones (1726-1800), who should not be confused with his namesake who is mentioned in note 281 on page 135. He was a lifelong friend of Bishop Horne, and his vicarage at Nayland was a meeting place of an influential group of High Churchmen. Besides the _Physiological Disquisitions_ (1781) he wrote _The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity_ (1756) and _The Grand Analogy_ (1793). [538] Robert Spearman (1703-1761) was a pupil of John Hutchinson, and not only edited his works but wrote his life. He wrote a work against the Newtonian physics, entitled _An Enquiry after Philosophy and Theology_ (Edinburgh, 1755), besides the _Letters to a Friend concerning the Septuagint Translation_ (Edinburgh, 1759) to which De Morgan refers. [539] A writer of no importance, at least in the minds of British biographers. [540] Alexander Catcott (1725-1779), a theologian and geologist, wrote not only a work on the creation (1756) but a _Treatise on the Deluge_ (1761, with a second edition in 1768). Sir Charles Lyell considered the latter work a valuable contribution to geology. [541] James Robertson (1714-1795), professor of Hebrew at the University of Edinburgh. Probably De Morgan refers to his _Grammatica Linguae Hebraeae_ (Edinburgh, 1758; with a second edition in 1783). He also wrote _Clavis Pentateuchi_ (1770). [542] Benjamin Holloway (c. 1691-1759), a geologist and theologian. He translated Woodward's _Naturalis Historia Telluris_, and was introduced by Woodward to Hutchinson. The work referred to by De Morgan appeared at Oxford in two volumes in 1754. [543] His work was _The Christian plan exhibited in the interpretation of Elohim: with observations upon a few other matters relative to the same subject_, Oxford, 1752, with a second edition in 1755. [544] Duncan Forbes (1685-1747) studied Oriental languages and Civil law at Leyden. He was Lord President of the Court of Sessions (1737). He wrote a number of theological works. [545] Should be 1756. [546] Edward Henry Bickersteth (1825-1906), bishop of Exeter (1885-1900); published _The Rock of Ages; or scripture testimony to the one Eternal Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost_ at Hampstead in 1859. A second edition appeared at London in 1860. [547] Thomas Sadler (1822-1891) took his Ph.D. at Erlangen in 1844, and became a Unitarian minister at Hampstead, where Bickersteth's work was published. Besides writing the _Gloria Patri_ (1859), he edited Crabb Robinson's Diaries. [548] This was his _Virgil's Bucolics and the two first Satyrs of Juvenal_, 1634.