WILLIAM (1689-1745).-Poet and translator, _b._ at Haslington, Cheshire, and _ed._ at Eton and Camb., entered the Church, and held various incumbencies. He translated the _Iliad_ in prose along with others, and was employed by Pope, whom he excelled as a Greek scholar, in translating the _Odyssey_, of which he Englished the 8th, 11th, 12th, 16t