Ross, John (2)

Ross, John (2), an English clergyman, was a native of Herefordshire, and was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree of D.D. In 1756 he became vicar of Frome, Somersetshire, bishop of Exeter in 1778, and died in 1792. He published six single Sermons (1756-85, 4to): — a Defense of Epistles said to have been Written by Cicero to Brutus: — Marci Tullii Ciceronis Epistolarum ad Familiares Libri X VI (1749, 2 vols. 8vo).