(1692 - 1752) Moral philosopher and theologian, born in Wantage,
Berkshire, Southern England, UK. He studied at Oxford, took
orders, and was appointed preacher at the Rolls Chapel, London
(1718). While holding various church appointments, he wrote his
major work, The Analogy of Religion (1736), in which he argued
that objections against revealed religion may also be levelled
against the whole constitution of nature. He was made Bishop of
Bristol (1738), Dean of St Paul's (1740), and Bishop of Durham
(1750).