English author, born in Barton-on-Humber on the 6th of July 1844; was educated at Cheltenham College, and is a solicitor and registrar of the court of his native town. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Archæology and a fellow of the Antiquarian Society. Among his works are Poseidon: A Link between Semite, Hamite and Aryan (1872); The Great Dionysiak Myth (1877); Language, and Theories of Its Origin (1881); The Unicorn: A Mythological Investigation (1881); The Law of Cosmic Order (1882); Eridanus: River and Constellation; A Story of the Southern Archaic Asteriams (1883); The Myth of Kirké (1883); A Trilogy of the Life to Come, and Other Poems (1887); The Etruscan Numerals (1889); Remarks on the Tablet of the Thirty Stars, or Babylonian Lunar Zodiac (1890).