[Robert William]. English clergyman and educational writer, born at Kennington, near London, on the 12th of November 1809; educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and St. John’s College, Oxford. After a tutorship in his college was appointed, in 1835, to the professorship of classical literature in King’s College, London. He was successively assistant preacher of Lincoln’s Inn, chaplain to the bishop of Lichfield, senior chaplain to the forces in London, prebendary of St. Paul’s, examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, archdeacon of Bath, rector of Weston-supermare and canon of Wells Cathedral. He wrote Histories of Greece and Rome for school use, translated many of the classics and won the honorary degree of Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg by his erudite Histories of Greek and Roman Literature. He died on the 12th of December 1895.
