EACHARD, JOHN (1636?-1697), English divine, was born in Suffolk, and was educated at Catharine Hall, Cambridge, of which he became master in 1675 in succession to John Lightfoot. He was twice (1679 and 1695) vice-chancellor of the university. He died on July 7, 1697. In 167o he had published anonymously a humorous satire entitled The Ground and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy enquired into in a letter to R. L. He attacked the philosophy of Hobbes in his Mr. Hobb's State of Nature considered in a dialogue between Philautus and Timothy (1672), and in his Some Opinions of Mr. Hobbs considered in a second dialogue (1673).
See his Works (3 vols., 1774) . The Contempt of the Clergy was reprinted in E. Arber's English Garner.