Buuxi weedha soo socota: Wuxuu dhashay 3 Nofeembar 1721, wuxuu galay Dugsiga Merchant Taylors isagoo laba iyo toban jir ah, wuxuuna ka sii gudbay (1739) St John's College, Oxford, isagoo ah arday tijaabo ah. Markii uu qalin jebiyey (M.A. 1746), oo uu qaatay amarada quduuska ah, wuxuu noqday wadaad ciidamada, wuxuuna la shaqeeyay guutada boqorka inta lagu gudajiray kacdoonkii reer Scotland ee 1746, kadibna wuxuu ka shaqeeyay
Go'doominta Qasriga St. Philip ee Minorca.