Basil Kennet,
SCHOLAR,
Was a younger brother of the bishop, and was born at Postling, in 1674. Like his brother he was educated at Oxford, when he proceeded as chaplain to the English factory at Leghorn. Being driven thence by the violence of the Papists, he returned to Oxford, where he soon afterwards died of the effects of a fever, the seeds of which he had brought with him from Italy. His best known works are "Romæ Antiquæ Notitia, or the Antiquities of Rome," which became, for nearly a century, the standard educational book on the subject, and "Lives and Characters of ancient Greek Poets." His lamented death took place in 1714-15.
[See "Biographia Britannica."]