Lort, Michael, Dd

Lort, Michael, D.D.

an English theologian, was born in 1725; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1745; became professor of Greek at Cambridge in 1759; rector of St. Matthew, London, in 1771; prebendary of St. Paul's in 1780. He died in 1790. His works were, Papers in Archeology, 1777, '79, '87: — Short Comment on the Lord's Prayer, 1790: — Inquiry Relative to the Authorship of "The whole Duty of Man;" and a small volume of Sernons. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, volume 2, s.v.