ELIJAH (1683-1730).-Poet and translator, _ed._ at Camb., for a time acted as sec. to the Earl of Orrery in Flanders, and was then Master of Sevenoaks Grammar School. In 1707 he _pub._ a book of poems. He is best known, however, as the assistant of Pope in his translation of the _Odyssey_, of which he Englished the first, fourth, nineteenth, an