BOURNE, VINCENT , English classical scholar, became a fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, in He passed most of his life as usher in Westminster school, and died on Dec. 2, 1747. He published three editions of his Latin poems, and in 1772 there appeared a handsome quarto volume con taining all Bourne's pieces, but also some that did not belong to him. A number of the Latin pieces are translations of English poems. Cowper (an old pupil of Bourne's), Beattie and Lamb have combined in praise of his power of Latin versification.
See an edition (1840) of his Poemata, with a memoir by John Mitford.