Simon Patrick, an English author, born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Sept. 8, 1626, died May 31, 1707. He was educated at Queen's college, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1648, and took orders in 1651. In 1658 he was presented with the living of Battersea, and from 1652 to 1704 he published more than 30 sermons and devotional treatises. In 1662 he became rector of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, in 1672 prebendary of Westminster, in 1679 dean of Peterborough, in 1689 bishop of Chichester, and in 1691 bishop of Ely. Besides his translation of Grotius Be Veritate, he wrote a " Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old Testament" (10 vols. 4to, London, 1695-1710); it extends to Canticles, and was completed by Lowth and Whitby for the whole Bible. His autobiography was first printed in Oxford in 1839. The first collected edition of his works was printed by the Oxford press in 9 vols. 8vo (1859), and a treatise on "The Appearing of Jesus Christ" was first printed from the original manuscript in 1863, at Cambridge.