 He was born at Shaftesbury, Wiltshire, in 1740, but his life was passed at Salisbury, with the history and charities of which city his name is inseparably associated.After spending his boyhood, first at the school in the Close, and then as a commoner at Winchester College, he went on to Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A.in 1761, M.A.