Stukeley
WILLIAM, an English antiquary; born in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, Nov. 7, 1687, and from the grammar school there passed in 1703 to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Having studied medicine he practiced successively at Boston, London, and Grantham; but in 1729 he took orders, and, after holding two Lincolnshire livings, in 1747 was presented to the rectory of St. George the Martyr in Queen Square, London. His 20 works, published between 1720 and 1726, and dealing with Stonehenge, Avebury, and anitiquities generally, are marred by a credulity and fancifulness which won for him the title of the "Arch-Druid."
He died in London March 3, 1765.