Robert Lowth

Born in 1710 and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, he built a reputation as a learned churchman and scholar. He went on to serve as Bishop of St David's, then of Oxford, and later of London.

He is especially known for Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews, a work that helped explain the idea of parallelism in biblical Hebrew poetry to later readers and scholars. He also wrote A Short Introduction to English Grammar, a widely read grammar book that had a long afterlife in discussions of English usage.

Lowth died in 1787. His work sits at an interesting meeting point of religion, classical learning, biblical studies, and the history of English grammar, which is why he is still remembered today.