Lardner, NATHANIEL

Lardner, NATHANIEL, an English divine, was born at Hawkshurst, in Kent, in 1684, and studied in London, afterwards at Utrecht and Leyden. He belonged to a body of English Presbyterians who had become Unitarians. He died at Hawkshurst on 24th July 1768. His Credibility of the Gospel History (2 vols. in 1727 and 12 vols. in 1733-55) and his Jewish and Heathen Testimonics (4 vols. 1764-67) have secured for him a place among the modern apologists for Christianity. See the Life by Kippis prefixed to his works (10 vols. 1788).