William Baxter, an English philologist and archaeologist, nephew of the preceding, born at Llanilugan, Montgomeryshire, in 1650, died in London, May 31, 1723. He had few advantages of instruction in his youth; and until the age of 18, when he entered the Harrow school, he knew not a single letter and no language but his native Welsh. In a few years, however, he was noted for his accurate knowledge, not only of the ancient dialects of Britain, but of the Greek and Latin classics. While a schoolmaster in a private school at Tottenham, in Middlesex, and afterward in the Mercers' school in London, he published most of his works. These consist of a Latin grammar, (1G79), two editions of Anacreon (1695 and 1710), two editions of Horace (1701 and 1725), and Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum (1719; new ed., 1733). After his death was published the letter A of a glossary of Roman antiquities, under the title of Reliquiae Bax-teriance, site Guilielmi Baxteri Opera post-huma (8vo, London, 1726; new ed., Glossarium Antiquitatum Romanarum, 1731).