[Joseph Estlin]. English Unitarian theologian; born at Ripley, Surrey, on the 5th of October 1844; educated at University College, London, and became vice-principal and professor of ecclesiastical history in Manchester New College, Oxford. He is editor and translator of volumes 3–5 of G. H. A. von Ewald’s History of Israel (1871–74), of Prof. C. P. Tiele’s Outlines of the History of Religions (1877, 1884), and, with Prof. T. W. Rhys Davids, of volume 1 of the Sumairgala Vitasini (1886), and volume 1 of the Digha Nikàya (1889), which exhibit his Sanskrit scholarship. He is the author of Three Ways of Salvation (1884) and The Three First Gospels (1890). He is the nephew of Mary Carpenter, and wrote her biography.
