[George Richard]. American author, born in Philadelphia on the 3rd of February 1822. In 1841 he became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was sent as a missionary to Illinois. In 1842 he was appointed a professor in Dickinson College, and in 1843 became principal of the collegiate grammar school. In 1848 he returned to the ministry, and was pastor successively in Philadelphia, Wilmington, New York and Brooklyn. He was the first editor of The Methodist, being chosen in 1860 and serving until 1875. He also prepared several school books, especially the Latin-English Lexicon, prepared jointly with Professor Schem. He published Life of Bishop Simpson; Life of John McClintock; edited Butler’s Analogy; Theological Encyclopedia and Methodology (jointly with John Fletcher Hurst). In 1880 he was appointed professor of historical theology in Drew Theological Seminary.
