of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire; while there he took priest's orders. In 1783 Lord-chancellor Thurlow presented him to the vicarage of Lesbury, Northumberland, and to this the Duke of Northumberland added the vicarage of Long Houghton, in the same county. On 28 October 1784 Archbishop John Moore conferred on him the Lambeth degree of M.A. After paying a visit to Tangier for the sake of his health, Stockdale returned to Lesbury in 1790. His reaction to the Haitian Revolution of 1792 put him among the radical abolitionists. With William Roscoe, he defended the violence with which slaves liberated themselves. Stockdale died at Lesbury on 14 September 1811, and was buried at Cornhill-on-Tweed. Works Stockdale's major work was The Poet (1773), a poem. He wrote also: A Poetical Address to the Supreme Being (Berwick [1764]),The Constituents: a poem, London, 1765 A translation of Torquato Tasso's Amyntas, 1770Life of Edmund Waller, prefixed to the poet's Works, 1772Antiquities of Greece, translation from the Latin of Lambert Bos, 1772Three Discourses: two against Luxury and Dissipation, one on Universal Benevolence, 1773Institutions, Manners, and Customs of the Ancient Nations, translation of François Sabbathier, Les Mœurs, coutumes et usages des anciens peuples (3 vols. 1770–1)Six Discourses, to which is prefixed an introduction containing a view of the genuine Ancient Philosophy, London, 1777An Enquiry into the Nature and Genuine Laws of Poetry; including a particular defence of the Writings and Genius of Mr. Pope, 1778, against An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (1756, 1782) by Joseph Warton. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 1778Letters from Lord Rivers to Sir C. Cardigan, 1778, translation from Marie Jeanne Riccoboni An Examination of the Important Question whether Education at a Great School or by Private Tuition is preferable, London, 1782. The second part is an answer to Liberal Education, or a Practical Treatise on the Methods of acquiring Useful and Polite Learning (1781) by Vicesimus Knox.Essay on Misanthropy, 1783Sermons on Important and Interesting Subjects, 1784Ximenes, verse tragedy in five acts, not acted, 1788Thirteen Sermons to Seamen, preached on board H.M.S. Leander in the Bay of Gibraltar, 1791Letter to Granville Sharp, suggested by the present Insurrection of the Negroes in the Island of St. Domingo, 1791. A defence of the St. Domingue Slave Revolt.Observations on the Writings and Conduct of our present Political and Religious Reformers, 1792Poetical Thoughts and Views on the Banks of the Wear, 1792Letter to Mr. Bryant, occasioned by