LINGARD, JOHN. — English polemicist and historian, b. at Winchester on 5 Feb. 1771, d. at Hornby on 17 July 1851. Ordained priest at York, he taught at Crookhall College, devoting his scholarly activity to polemical works in defense of Catholicism and especially to the compilation of material for the religious and political history of his country.
Of his vast output, only two works of major historical importance are remembered: *The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church* (Newcastle 1866) and *A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Commencement of the Reign of William III* (London 1819–30), as well as his translation of the Gospel: *New Version of the Four Gospels* (ibid. 1836), intended as a replacement for the Douai version.