English writer of popular educational works, born at Stamford, England, in 1800. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1821. In 1830 he became rector of the small parish of Lyndon, in Rutlandshire, where he died on the 9th of March 1853. In 1838 he published Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition, and the next year his Latin Prose Composition. These works are still largely used. He also published, with the Rev. J. E. Riddle, an English-Latin Lexicon (1847); edited 25 volumes of classics, and produced English, French, Italian, German and Hebrew grammars. As a theologian he published several volumes of sermons, and some controversial treatises. He abridged the American translation of Hengstenderg’s Christology.
