Richard Hurd, bishop of Worcester

(1720-1808)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hurd, Richard, 1720-1808 NRA: Hurd Richard (1720-1808) Bishop of Worcester DNB: Hurd, Richard (1720-1808), bishop of Worcester LBT ID: RiHurd1808 VIAF ID: 12417397 LOC ID: n50029722	B/BAP: 1720-01-13 DIED: 1808-05-28
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Bishop of Worcester (1781) and highly-regarded scholar-critic; editor of Horace's Ars Poetica (1749), author of Moral and Political Dialogues (1759), and Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762). He was the friend and editor of Bishop William Warburton.