John Ross (bishop of Exeter)

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John Ross
John Ross by Lemuel Francis Abbott
Bishop of Exeter
In office 1778-1792
Preceded by	Frederick Keppel
Succeeded by	William Buller
Personal details
Born	24 or 25 June 1719 (1719-06) Ross, Herefordshire, England
Died	14 August 1792 (1792-09) (aged 73) Exeter, Devon, England
Education	St John's College, Cambridge

John Ross or Rosse (1719–1792) was an English Bishop of Exeter.

He was born at Ross in Herefordshire, on 24 or 25 June 1719, the only son of John Rosse, attorney in that town. He was educated at the grammar school in Hereford, was admitted a pensioner at St John's College, Cambridge (April 1737), and on the following 22 June became a Somerset scholar of the third foundation at his college. He graduated B.A. 1741, M.A. 1744, B.D. 1751, D.D. 1756, and on 10 July 1744 was incorporated at Oxford.^[1] From March 1744 to 1770 he held a fellowship at St. John's, and down to 1768 he discharged college duties.^{[citation needed]}

In 1757 Ross was appointed to the preachership at the

Ross edited in 1749 letters of Cicero. When Jeremiah Markland brought out a volume of 'Remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Brutus,' and added 'a Dissertation upon Four Orations ascribed to Cicero', Ross published an ironical 'Dissertation in which the Defence of P. Sulla ascribed to Cicero is clearly proved to be spurious after the manner of Mr. Markland.' He was the author of sermons, and revised Richard Polwhele's English Orator; and was a patron to George Ashby.^{[citation needed]}

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Ross, John (1719-1792)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.