Lowth, Robert (1710–1787)

English theologian and scholar. He published his Life of William Wykeham 1758 and A Short Introduction to English Grammar 1762. Lowth was one of the first to treat the Bible poetry as literature, and in 1778 wrote a new translation of Isaiah.

He was born in Winchester and educated there and at Oxford. In 1741 he became professor of poetry at Oxford and in 1750 was appointed to the archdeaconry of Winchester. Consecrated bishop of St Davids 1766, he was soon afterwards transferred to Oxford, and in 1777 became bishop of London.