English divine, born at Liverpool on the 3rd of September 1845, and educated at the Royal Institution school, Liverpool, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. His father and grandfather were Yorkshire agriculturists, and throughout his life he took a strong interest in the welfare of the agricultural labourer, publishing three volumes on the subject, Village Politics (1878), Christ and Democracy (1883) and The Land and the Labourers (1890). He was a strong Liberal with somewhat socialistic views, and was preferred by Mr. Gladstone to the living of Stokenham and Chivelstone in Devon in 1884. In 1887 he was transferred to Liverpool, becoming rector of Wavertree. In 1893 he became dean of Ely, remaining there till 1905, when Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman nominated him to the bishopric of Truro. He was Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1904, and published his lectures under the title The Christ in English Poetry (1905). His other works include A Creed for Christian Socialists (1896); Charles Kingsley and the Christian Social Movement (1898) and a Handbook to Ely Cathedral (1898). He died at Truro on the 4th of May 1912.
