John Leng (bishop)

John Leng (1665–1727) was an English churchman and academic, bishop of Norwich from 1723.

Life

He was born at

He was elected fellow of his college 13 September 1688, and subsequently became known as a tutor and Latinist. scholar. At the consecration of the new chapel of his college by Simon Patrick, bishop of Ely, in 1701, he preached the sermon. In 1708 he was presented by his old pupil, Sir Nicholas Carew, to the rectory of Beddington, Surrey, which he held in commendam to his death.

In 1717 and 1718 he delivered the

Works

In 1695 he published the Plutus and the Nubes of Aristophanes, with a Latin translation, and in 1701 he edited the Cambridge edition of Terence, adding a dissertation on the metres of the author. He also published a revised edition of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation of Cicero's De Officiis.

Leng published fourteen single sermons, preached on public occasions, among them one preached before the Society for the Reformation of Manners at Bow Church, 29 December 1718. His Boyle Lectures went to a second edition.

Family

Leng was twice married. By his first wife he had no children. By his second, Elizabeth, daughter of a Mr. Hawes of Sussex, he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Susanna.

Notes

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Leng, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.