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Houghton Houlton rMwrdership of Norwicli, and on ^1 April 1613 he was appoiaMi) to a puisne I udgesuip in the kiag'a bench and knij^hted. When required in January 1614-15 to give a sepa- r>t« eztra-judiciaJ opinion for the guidance at the crown in the ca«e of the puritan Peacham [q.v.], he at first demurred on the ^roundof Ilia inexpBrience of business of that nature, but heing, as Bacon said, 'a soft man,' ultimat«l]' consented ; he alao acted with the majority of the judges in the celebrated com- mmdam case in 1016 [see Coke, Sik Ed- WAED, 1562-16341. Houghton died in Fe- bruary 1623-4 atnia chambers in Serjeantfl' Inn, and was buried on the 6th in the church ■of St. Dunatan's-in-the-Weat, where his widow, Mary, daughter of Robert Rychers of Wrotham, Kent, caused a splendid monu- ment U> be erected to his memory. He is described by Croke as > a must reverend, prudent, learned, and temperate judge, and inferior to none in his time' (Cboee, Sep, Jama I, p. 685). Several manors which he held in Norfolk descended to his heir, Francis, Bnd remained lontf in Ills poHt«rity. His sister Cecilia married Richard Thurlow of Bumham Ulph, Norfolk, a lineal ancestor of Iflrd Thurlow. [BlamDSeld'B Korfollc. pd. ISOS, iii. 3S9, 370, . 272. li. 113; Dagdalu's Orig. 26t, 381-2; KichoIa'sPrngr. .TsmesI,!. lo7, ii.B27; BnrWa FMrsge.'Thurlov ; ' Fobs'b Lives of the Judgoi.] J. M. H. HOUOHTON or HOGHTON, WIL- LIAM HYACINTH (173t)-lM23>, Roman catholic divine, born in 1736 in [he hundred of West Derby, Lancashire, was descended from the Hi^htons of Hoghton Tower in the eame county. He was educated at the Dominican College at Bomhen in the Low Countries, studied also for some time acLouvuin, was or- dained prieat on ^5 Feb. 176U, and from 1758 toirCSlield the office of prefect in the Bom- hem Collage, Joining the English mission, lie returned to this country, and held private ebaplainciea until 1775, when he went back to Bornhem, and became successirelj prior, «ubprior, and procurator of the convent. He removed in 1779 to the English Domini- can College, Louvain, where he acted as professor of philosophy. A controversr re- garding his acceptance of the philosophical views of Newton and Descartes led him to return to England. He died at Fairhurst, the Lancashire seat of the Nelfon family, on 3 Jan. 1^3, and was buried at Windlesham, in the same county. Houghton edited and wrote articles in the' Catholic Magaaine and Beflector ' (January to July 1801), the first catholic magazine that had appeared in Eng- land. He also published ' Theses ex Uni- veraa Philosophia, , . . &c,,' Louvain, 1780. [Gillow's Diet, of Cath. Bibl. iii. 416 ; Cath, Times, 8 June 1883.] W. A. J. A, HOULING, JOHN (153fl?-1699), Irish Jesuit, waa born in Wexford about 1539, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1671, being professedofthe fourvows. He seems to have been al Alcala de Ilenarejj in 1578, at Rome in 1580, and at Lisbon in 15»3. At Lisbon he laboured successfully for many years in the conversion and edilication of such of his countrymen as either commerce or persecu- tion brought to that port. In 1593, with the aid of Father Peter Fouseca, he established in that city a college dedicat<d to St. Patrick and the education of young Irish Roman catholics. In 1599 Lisbon was visited by fell a victim lo its ravages, and died on 31 Dec. 1599. He was highly es- teemed by Fitzsimon and Coppinger. Houling wrote ■ Perbreve compendium in quoconlinentur nonnuUi eorum qui Hybemia re^onte impia Regina Elizabeth, vincula, exilium et martyrium ptrpeasi sunt,' printed from a manuscript at Salamanca bv CAirdinBl Moran in 'SpicileginmUssoriense, 182-109. The work is valuable, from the personal ac- quaintance of the writer with many of those whose lives he records. [Hogan's Ibcmin Ignnliana ; Foley's Records of iha Society of Jssns, J. 293, vii. pi. i. p. 37S, and HogBo's Irish CaMh.vii, pi. ii. p. 4 ; FitJi- simou's Justification of the Mass ; Moron's S[h- cilegium Ossoiiense.] R. D. HOULTON, ROBERT (/. ISOl), dra- matist and journalist, born about 17^, was the son of the Rev. Robert Houlton of Milton, Clavedon, Somerset (FosTETi, AlKvmi Oxvn. 1715-1886, ii. 697). On 24 July ITBo he matriculated at Oxford from Coqius Christi College, but in 1757 he was chosen a demy of Magdalen College. He graduated B.A. on 37 April 1759, M.A.on 21 April 1762. He resigned his demyahip in 1765, and shortly aftivwarda married. In 1767 Ida father pub- lished a sermon on 'The Practice of Inocula- tion justified,' dedicated to Daniel Sutton, a surgeon who had improved the method of inoculation, and announced in the appendiix ' A Volume of Miscellaneous Poetry, to be Issued by his son, but nothing further is known of the volume. Sutton the surgeon and hij4 family seem to have confided to the younger Houlton I he secrets of their method of inoculation, and the latter eventually went to Ireland to practise it. By way of odver-