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CLIFFORD, MARTIN; b.; KS (Capt. ); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1640, adm. scholar 1641, matr. 1640; a buffoon about the Court, 1660; employed by the Duke of Buckingham in producing The Rehearsal (together with Samuel Butler and Thomas Sprat); attacked John Dryden (qv) in a series of letters; Master of the Charterhouse from 1671; author, A Treatise of Human Reason, 1674; d. 10 Dec 1677. DNB.

COLBATCH, JOHN, son of John Colbatch, Ludlow, Shropshire, and Jane ---; bapt. 27 Dec 1663; adm.; KS 1680; rejected 1682, but elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1683, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1683, aged 18, scholar 10 Apr 1684; BA 1686/7; MA 1690; BD 1701; DD 1706; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 2 Oct 1689-90, Major Fellow 1 Jul 1690-1715, Senior Fellow from 1715; ordained priest (London) 20 Dec 1691; Chaplain to British Factory, Lisbon 1688 [check]-96; a protege of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury; tutor, Trinity Coll., 1700, Senior Dean 1705-7; travelling tutor in Italy with Earl of Hertford (later 7th Duke of Somerset) 1706; Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Theology, Cambridge, 1707-44; an opponent of Richard Bentley in internal Trinity College disputes, becoming involved in several resulting lawsuits; Prebendary of Salisbury 7 Aug 1702 - res May 1720; Rector of Orwell, Cambs., from 1720; author, three pamphlets; d. 11 Feb 1747/8. DNB.

COOPER, JOHN GILBERT, eldest son of John Gilbert, Locko, Derbs., and Thurgarton Priory, Notts., and Dorothy, dau. of William Bainbrigge, Cockington [or Lockington : check], Leics.; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1734; left 1740; assumed with his father additional surname of Cooper; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 18 Sep 1740, matr. 1740; befriended Bridge Frodsham (qv); wrote several books, including Life of Socrates, 1749, and Letters on Taste, 1754; one of the principal contributors to Dodsley’s Museum, started in 1746, under the pseudonym “Philaretes”; m. 22 Oct 1748 Susan, dau. of William Wrighte, Recorder of Leicester; d. 12 Apr 1769. DNB.