Jortin

Jortin, JOHN, miscellaneous writer, was the son of a Huguenot refugee, and was born in London, 23d October 1698, and educated at Charterhouse and Jesus College, Cambridge. Having taken orders, he held in succession the livings of Swavesey in Cambridgeshire (till 1730), Eastwell in Kent, St Dunstan's-in-the-East, London (from 1751), and Kensington. He was also a prebendary of St Paul's and archdeacon of London. He died 5th September 1770. At Cambridge he published a volume of meritorious Latin poems, Lusus Poetici (1722). The works for which he was best known are Miscellaneous Observations upon Authors, Ancient and Modern (2 vols. 1731-32); Remarks on Ecclesiastical History (5 vols. 1751-53); Life of Erasmus (2 vols. 1758-60); and Tracts: Philological, Critical, and Miscellaneous, edited by his son (2 vols. 1790).