CONYERS MIDDLETON BIOGRAPHY
CONYERS MIDDLETON BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
MIDDLETON, CONYERS (1683-1750). —Divine and scholar, born at Richmond, Yorkshire, and ed. at Camb. He was the author of several latitudinarian treatises on miracles, etc., which brought him into controversy with Waterland ( q.v. ) and others, and of a Life of Cicero (1741), largely plagiarised from William Bellenden, a Scottish writer of the 17th century. Another of his controversies was with Bentley on college administration. He was master of a very fine literary style.