English divine, born in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England, on the 28th of January 1827; graduated in 1847 from Trinity College, Oxford, of which he was successively scholar, fellow and tutor, and held the university offices of select preacher and public examiner. He was one of the Queen’s Whitehall preachers in 1856; inspector of schools in 1859; rector of Erpingham in 1868; canon of Lincoln in 1869. He was one of the founders of the Anglo-Continental Society for making known in foreign countries the principles of the English church. To help in this work, he published a number of controversial treatises in Latin, Italian, Spanish, etc. He contributed to Dr. Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible and Dictionary of Antiquities, to a number of commentaries on different books of the Bible, and was for seventeen years editor of the Foreign Church Chronicle and Review.
