English theologian, born in Doncaster on the 14th of December 1824; educated at Rugby and at University College, Oxford, where he was graduated in 1846. In 1847 he was elected fellow of his college and gained a scholarship and a prize in divinity. He applied himself to the study of divinity, and was ordained priest in 1850, and in 1851 became theological tutor in Trinity College, Glenalmond, Scotland. In 1859 he was appointed tutor in University College, Oxford, and was promoted in 1868 to be professor of ecclesiastical history and to the attached canonry of Christ Church; the next year the university conferred upon him the degree of D.D. Among his numerous works are Ancient Collects from Various Rituals (1857); A History of the Church from the Edict of Milan to the Council of Chalcedon (1860; 5th ed., 1888); Select Sermons of St. Leo on the Incarnation, with his “Tome,” Translated, with Notes (1862); Faith and Life; Readings from Ancient Writers (1864, 1866); Hymns and other Verses (1866, 1874); Chapters of Early English Church History (1878, 1888); Later Treatises of St. Athanasius, Translated, with Notes and an Appendix (1881); Notes on the Canons of the First Four General Councils (1882, 1892); The Incarnation as a Motive Power (1889, 1891); Lessons from the Lives of Three Great Fathers (1890); Morality in Doctrine (1892); Waymarks in Church History (1894); etc.
