HODY, HUMPHRY, D.D., an eminent divine, was born on the let of January 1859, at Oldcombe, in Somersetahire. He was educated at the University of Oxford, took his degree of M.A. in 1682, and was elected in 1684 a fellow of Wadham College. In the same year he published Dissertatio °entre Historian Aristese de LXX. tibns; which was well received by most of his learned contemporaries. VC:Wille however published a reply to it in an appendix to his edition of ' Pomponius Aida.' But the works by which Hody was principally known among his contemporaries were those which he published respecting the bishops who had been deprived of their bishoprics during the reign of Wiliiem and Mary, for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the new government. The first work which he pub lished on this subject was a translation of a Greek treatise, supposed to have been written by Nicephorus in the latter end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century, in which the writer maintains that "although a bishop was unjnetly deprived, neither he nor the church ever made a separation, if the successor was not a heretic." The original Greek work, as well as the Eoglish translation, were both pnblished in 1691. Amongst the numerous works pnblished in reply to Hody, the most celebrated was written by Dod well, and was entitled A Vindication of the Deprived Bishops' (Loud., 1692). In the following year Hedy published another work, entitled ' The Case of Sees Vacant by an Uneanonical Deprivation' (4to, Lend., 1693), in which be supports the opinions of Nicephorus, and replies to the arguments of his opponents. These exertions of Hedy in favour of the ruling party in the chnrch did not pass unrewarded. He was appointed domestic chaplain to Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury, which office he also held under his successor. He was presented with
a living In London, and was appointed regins professor of Greek at Oxford in 1698, and archdeacon of Oxford in 1704. He died January 20th, 1706. He founded ten scholarships at Wadham College, in order to promote the study of the Greek and Hebrew languages.
Of the other works of Hody, the most important are ;-1. 'De Bibliorum Textibus Originalibue, versionibue Grrecis et Latina Vulgate, libri iv.' Oxford, 1704, foL, which is raid by Bishop Marsh to be " the classical work on the Septuagint." Tho first book contains the disser tation against the history of Aristeas, which has been mentioned above. The second gives an account of the real translators of the Septuagint, and of the time when the translation was made. The third book gives a history of the Hebrew text and of the Latin vulgate; and the fourth, of the other ancient Greek versions. 2. 'The Resurrection of the (Same) Body Asserted,' 8vo, Lend., 1694. 3.'Animadversions on two Pamphlets lately published by Mr. Collier,' 8vo, Land., 1696. Sir W. Perkins and Sir J. Friend had been executed in 1605 for treason against the government; but previous to their execution had been absolved of their crime by some non-juring clergymen. This act was condemned by the ecclesiastical authorities, but was justified by Collier in two pamphlets which be pnblished on the subject. 4. 'De Griecis Illustribns llngum Grteem litteraramque humaniorum inataura toribus,' Lond., 1742. This work was published several . years after the author's death, by Dr. Jebb, who has prefixed to It an account of Hody's life and writings, to which we are indebted for the greater part of the preceding remarks.