American Shakespearean scholar, born in Cornwall, VT, on the 28th of January 1814. He graduated at Middlebury College in 1840, and afterward taught in Kentucky and Alabama. He published his first Lectures on Shakespeare in 1848; in 1849 he was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church; in 1859–60 was rector in Litchfield, CT; during the Civil War was army chaplain; for a time editor of the Churchman, the American Church Monthly and the Saturday Evening Gazette, afterward professor of Shakespeare at Harvard, and edited an edition of Shakespeare in 1850–57. He was the author of A Chaplain’s Campaign with General Butler (1865); Shakespeare: His Life, Art and Characters (1872); and Studies in Wordsworth (1874). He died in Cambridge, MA, on the 16th of January 1886.
