Men of Kent and Kentishmen/John Randolph
John Randolph,
BISHOP,
Was the younger son of the above, and born at Saltwood in 1749. He was educated at Oxford, where he was chosen Prælector of Poetry in 1776, and in 1782 Regius Professor of Greek. In 1783 he became Rector of Ewelme, whence he was advanced to the See of Oxford in 1799, to be translated to Bangor in 1807, and thence to London in 1809. He died in 1813. He was the author of a work on the "Study of the Greek Language," and of other treatises.
[See "Gentleman's Magazine" for 1813, 1814.]