English author, born at Laleham, Staines, on the 23rd of November 1823. He graduated in 1845 at University College, Oxford; obtained a position in the colonial office and went to New Zealand; then to Tasmania in 1850, where he became inspector of schools. Having entered the Roman Church, he returned home in 1856, and was appointed to a chair in the University of Dublin. He afterward went to Birmingham, connecting himself therewith the Oratory School, and subsequently took up his residence at Oxford. Among his works are: A Short History of English Literature, which went through several editions (1866–77); Chaucer to Wordsworth: A Short History of English Literature to the Present Day (1868); Select English Works of John Wycliffe (1869). Besides these he edited a number of Anglo-Saxon texts and histories.
