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Rh but seems never to have been printed. Arthur was also preparing at the time of his death a commentary on the whole of Aquinas's work in ten volumes.

[Ware's Writers of Ireland, ed. Harris, p. 160; Quetif and Echard's Scriptores Ordinis Prædicatorum, ii. 536 b; N. Antonius, Bibliotheca Hispana, (1672) ii. 358, (edition of 1688) ii. 368.]  ARTHUR, THOMAS (d. 1532), divine and dramatist, a native of Norfolk, was educated at Cambridge, probably in Trinity Hall, and imbibed protestant opinions from his fellow-countryman, Thomas Bilney. He was admitted a fellow of St. John's College in February 1517-8, being then a master of arts, and in 1518 he occurs as principal of St. Mary's Hostel. In 1526 he and Bilney were charged with heresy, and compelled to take an oath abjuring Luther's opinions. In November 1527 they were brought as relapsed heretics before Cardinal Wolsey and other bishops in the chapter-house at Westminster. Both of them recanted and did penance, though Bilney afterwards had the courage of his opinions and suffered for them at the stake. Arthur died at Walsingham in 1532.

He wrote: 1. ‘Microcosmus,’ a tragedy. 2. ‘Mundus plumbeus,’ a tragedy. 3. ‘In quosdam Psalmos.’ 4. ‘Homeliæ Christianæ.’ 5. A translation of Erasmus, ‘De Milite Christiano.’

[Tanner's Bibl. Brit. ; Fox's Acts and Monuments; Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, i. 325; Baker's Hist. of St. John's Coll. Camb. ed. Mayor, i. 282; Cooper's Athenæ Cantab, i. 46.]  ARTHUR, THOMAS, M.D. (1593–1666?), Irish catholic physician, was born of an ancient family settled at Limerick, many members of which had filled municipal offices in that city in early times. His father's name being William, he often styled himself Thomas Arthur Fitz-William. He was educated at Bordeaux, and afterwards studied medicine at Paris. In May 1619, having returned to his native country, he began a successful practice in Limerick, and soon gained the reputation of a skilful physician. In April 1624, on the invitation, as he himself tells us, of persons of influence, he opened practice in Dublin, where he spent the greater part of his time, but still attended patients in Limerick during occasional visits. In 1630, however, he moved his household to the capital. His manuscript entry-book (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 31885) contains a complete list of his patients and fees from 1619 to 1666, the last date being probably the year of his death. Among the various cases which he treated the most important one, or at least the one in which he took most pride, was that of Archbishop Usher, ‘pseudo-primas Ardmachanus,’ whose complaint had baffled the English physicians. Arthur effected a cure in 1626, and received a fee of 51l. His success brought him the patronage of the lord deputy, Viscount Falkland. His entry-book also contains an exact record of his gradual accumulation of landed property, and also a few pieces in ponderous Latin verse. Among the latter is an ‘Anagramma physiognomicum in nomen Thomæ Wentworth, Proregis Hiberniæ, truculenti et nefarii hominis.’ But his greatest literary effort is a genealogical account, ‘Edylium genealogicum,’ of the family of Arthur, in Latin elegiacs, in which, besides the glory of his ancestors, he gives some particulars of his own life.

[Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 31885; Lenihan's History of Limerick.]  ARTLETT, RICHARD AUSTIN (1807–1873), engraver, was born 9 Nov. 1807. He was a pupil of Robert Cooper, and afterwards of James Thomson. He engraved in the dotted manner a few figure-subjects, including ‘Boulogne in 1805’ and ‘Boulogne in 1855,’ after Absolon, and several portraits, among which are those of Lord Ashburton, after Sir Thomas Lawrence; Lord Lyndhurst, after A. E. Chalon; the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn and Sir James Emerson Tennent, after George Richmond; George Macdonald, after George Reid; Lady Clementina Villiers, after F. Winterhalter; and Mrs. Gladstone, after W. Say. He was, however, most distinguished as an engraver of sculpture, his plates of which in the ‘Art Journal’ are executed with great taste and delicacy. Among them may be mentioned ‘The Fawn,’ a statue by C. B. Birch; ‘The Virgin Mother,’ a group by Carrier-Belleuse; ‘The Leopard-Hunter,’ a statue by Jerichau; ‘The Day-Dream,’ a statue by P. MacDowell; ‘The Veiled Vestal,’ a statue by R. Monti; ‘Boadicea,’ a group by J. Thomas; the equestrian statue of Viscount Hardinge, and ‘Asia,’ one of the groups of the Albert Memorial, by J. H. Foley; ‘Christ giving sight to the Blind Man,' a group by J. D. Crittenden; and ‘Perdita and Florizel’ and ‘The Siren and the drowned Leander,’ groups by J. Durham, He died 1 Sept. 1873.

[Art Journ. 1873, p 377.]  ARUNDALE, FRANCIS (1807–1853), architect, born in London 9 Aug. 1807, was a pupil of Augustus Pugin; he accompanied his master to Normandy, and helped him with his ‘Architectural Antiquities of 