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Rh education at Rome he served in the Milanese army, then accompanied the Spanish ambassador to Spain, and fought in the wars against the Moors, after- ward entered the church, and opened a school. In 1501 he was sent by King Ferdinand as his ambas- sador to Egypt, and in 1505 he became prior of the church at Granada. His " Opus Epistolarum " re- counts all the important events that occurred be- tween 1488 and 1525. He wrote also a history of the New World, entitled " De Rebus Oceanicis et Orbe Novo," based upon original documents sup- plied by Christopher Columbus, and on the trans- actions of the council of the Indies, of which he was a member. His other works are an account of newly discovered islands and their inhabitants, and a narrative of his visit to Egypt and of explora- tions of the pvramids. See " Petrus Martyr," by PI. A. Schumacher (New York, 1879).

ANGLIN, Timothy Warren, Canadian states- man, b. in Clonakilty co., Cork, Ireland, 31 Aug., 1822. Emigrated to St. John, New Brunswick, in 1849, where the same year he established the "Weekly Freeman." He established the "Morn- ing Freeman," a tri-weekly paper, liberal in poli- tics, the organ of the Roman Catholics of New Brunswick, in 1851, and was its editor and proprie- tor until 1877. On the government permitting a prohibitory liquor bill to pass, Mr. Anglin went into opposition, and he has since been a conserva- tive. In 1860 he was elected to the New Bruns- wick house of assembly by the ?ity and county of St. John, which he represented until 1866, being the first Roman Catholic to represent that con- stituency. He was a leader of the opponents of confederation. In 1867 he was elected to the Do- minion house of commons for Gloucester co., and on 26 March, 1874, was elected speaker of the house. He retained this office until the end of the session of 1877, when he resigned, his seat having been declared vacant through a breach of the inde- pendence of parliament act. He was reelected speaker 7 Feb., 1878, and held the place till par- liament was dissolved.

ANGULO Y HEREDIA, Antonio, Cuban author, b. in Havana in 1837. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1863. In 1864 he edited in Madrid the "Revista Hispano-Americana." He has published "Estudios sobre los Estados Unidos," embodying the results of his travels through the United States; and "Schiller y Goethe," a series of lectures on German literature delivered in the Ateneo of Madrid with great success. Angulo lost his reason and died and few years ago.

ANGULO, Pedro de, missionary, b. in Burgos, Spain, about 1500 ; d. in 1563. After finishing his studies he set out for America in 1524, in company with some other young men of noble birth. He rapidly acquired wealth and military fame, but was so much affected by the sight of the cruelties with which the Spaniards treated the Indians that he resolved to devote himself entirely to the service of the natives. With this object he entered a Dominican convent and took the habit of the order in Mexico in 1528. After studying for some years ho was ordained a priest, and was then placed under the direction of Las Casas, whom he accompanied into Peru and other places where the protection of the Indians rendered their presence necessary. In 1541 he was sent to Guatemala to carry on the work among the Indians which had been begun ten years before. He was so successful that ten years afterward the number of Christians was so large, and the convents of the Dominicans so nu- merous, as to require the erection of the country into a new province of the order. His next efforts were directed to the conversion of the people that lived north of Guatemala. These Indians were so fierce and warlike that the Spaniards, who had been repelled in every attempt to subdue them, called their country " the land of war." In com- pany with two other missionaries. Father de An- gulo went among them, and, although at first re- ceived with distrust, finally succeeded in converting, the entire nation. He next devoted himself to the task of persuading the Indians to abandon their nomadic life, succeeded in forming them into vil- lage communities, and drew up a code of laws suited to their character and needs. The Indians offered to place their country under the protection of the crown of Castile and pay an annual tribute, provided no attempt was made on their liberty, and a treaty to this effect was ratified by the Span- ish court, which also expressed a wish that the name of the country should be changed to Vera- Pax, in memory of the event. A city of the same name was built a few years afterward, and Father de Angulo was chosen its first bishop ; but before the bulls arrived from Rome he died.

ANGUS, Joseph, English clergyman, b. in Bolam. Northumberland. 16 Jan., 1816. He was educated at Edinburgh university, is president of Regent's park college, London (Baptist), author of several hand-books, and editor of Butler's " Anal- ogy" (1855). He was one of the revisers of the English New Testament for the American Bible imion. and visited the United States in 1873 as a delegate of the Evangelical alliance.

ANGUS, Samuel, naval officer, b. in Philadel- phia in 1784 ; d. in Geneva, N. Y., 29 May, 1840. He entered tlie service in 1799 as midshipman, and became lieutenant in 1807, master-commandant in 1813, and captain in 1816, Pie was severely wounded in the action between the "Constella- tion " and the French frigate " La Vengeance," 1 Feb., 1800, and again in the encounter between the " Enterprise " and a French lugger. In the war of 1812 he was badly wounded in the attack on the English at Black Rock, and while commanding a flotilla in Delaware bay. He commanded the ship that carried Adams and Clay to Ghent to arrange the peace with Great Britain. Owing to injuries received in the service, his mind became impaired, and he was dismissed, 21 June, 1824.

ANNAND, William, Canadian statesman, b. in Halifax. Nova Scotia, in 1808; d. in London, 13 Oct., 1887. He was elected to the assembly, and allied himself with the old reform party that was led by Joseph Howe, which established responsible government in the province and introduced various other reforms. He was a inember of the executive council and financial secretary of Nova Scotia from 1859 to 1863, and was called upon to form an administration for that province in November, 1867, a duty which he accomplished most successfully, and ill which he held consecutively the offices of provincial treasurer and president of the council, the latter being held conjointly with the premiership until his resignation in May, 1875. On 11 May, 1875. he was appointed agent in London for the" promotion of immigration, and for representing the interests of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick more effectually in the United Kingdom and on the continent of Europe. He was also a repeal delegate to Great Britain with Mr. Howe and others in 1866 and 1868. Mr. Annand was a contributor to the Nova Scotia press, edited the "Speeches and Public Letters of Joseph Howe" (Boston, 1858), and was the author of a pamphlet on confederation (London. 1866). He held the office of queen's printer for several years.