American Unitarian minister, born at Craanford, Wexford County, Ireland, on the 1st of November 1809. He was educated at Belfast as a Roman Catholic, but abandoned that faith and became a Unitarian. He preached in Greenock, Scotland, 1835–37, and then three years in Liverpool, England. In 1840 he went to the United States, and soon became eminent as a lecturer. He contributed to many periodicals, and published Lectures and Essays (1850); Christian Thought on Life (1851); Illustrations of Genius (1854); Human Life in Shakspeare (1868); etc. He died in Boston on the 10th of July 1882.
