BOUCHER, JONATHAN (1738-1804), English divine and philologist, was born near Wigton, Cumberland, on March 12, 1738, and died at Epsom on April 27, 1804. In early life he was a tutor in Virginia where he taught Washington's stepson. After a short stay in England for his ordination he returned to America and held various preferments there, becoming known as an elo quent preacher. He took the English side in the quarrel between England and the colonies and had to return to England, when he received a pension and the living of Epsom. Boucher contributed largely to William Hutchinson's History of the County of Cumber land (2 vols., 1794 seq.) and published A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution (1797), dedicated to George Washington, and consisting of thirteen discourses de livered in America between 1763 and 1775. His "Glossary of Provincial and Archaic Words," intended as a 'supplement to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, was never published except in part, but passed into the hands of the English compilers of Webster's Dictionary.