American author, born at Kidderminster, England, on the 31st of May 1816. He was educated at Manchester New College, and became a Unitarian preacher at Manchester, and afterwards at Lynn Regis. Afterwards becoming a spiritualist, he removed to the United States in 1849, and took charge of a church at Gloucester, MA, and after 1856 settled in Boston. He published Martyria, a Legend (1845); Euthanasy, or Happy Talks toward the End of Life (1848; new ed., 1874); Thorpe, a Quiet English Town (1852); Miracles, Past and Present (1870). He died on the 20th of April 1885.
