William Beloe, an English clergyman and author, born at Norwich in 1756, died April 11, 1817. He studied under Dr. Parr and at Cambridge university, for a time assisted Dr, Parr in a school at Norwich, and was afterward curate and vicar of Eltham. Finding his income insufficient, he removed to London, and for several years occupied himself by writing for periodicals. During the American revolution he advocated with his pen the causeof the colonies, but when the French revolution broke out he took the conservative side; and in company with Archdeacon Nares he commenced in 1793 the publication of the "British Critic," which strongly supported tory views. In 1804 he became assistant librarian of the British museum, but was soon dismissed on account of a loss sustained by the institution through his mistaken kindness to an unworthy applicant, He made a translation of Herodotus (4 vols. 8vo, 1791) which had for a time a high reputation, but has been superseded by more accurate versions. Besides many other translations, he published "Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books" (6 vols. 8vo, 1806-'12), and other works; and after his death appeared "The Sexagenarian, or Memoirs of a Literary Life" (2 vols. 8vo, 1817).