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giaduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary, 1845 ; admitted to the diaconate, July 12, 1845 '< advanced to the priesthood. September 23, 1846, and was in charge of Lexington parish, Amherst, Virginia, 1845- 47. He was married, December i, 1847, to Margaret Jane, daughter of James and Eliz- abeth Fisher, of Richmond, Virginia. He was assistant at St. Paul's, Richmond, 1847- 48; rector of Christ Church, Winchester, Virginia, 1848-60; of Christ Church, Alexan- dria, 1860-61, and of Emmanuel Church, Richmond, 1862-66. He was professor of church history in the Virginia Theological Seminary, 1866-76; professor of systematic divinity and homiletics, 1876-98, and dean ot the faculty, 1895-98, retiring in 1898. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by the College of Wil- liam and Mary in 1859. He is the author of: "Biography of Rev. William Duval, City Missionary of Richmond" (1854) ; "Life and Correspondence of Rev. William Sparrow" (1876) ; "Biography of Rev. Charles W. Andrews" (1877); "Sorrowing, not without Hope" (1887) ; "Outlines of Theology" (1893) ' "Lectures on Christian Ethics" (1896); a history of the Virginia Theological Seminary, in preparation, 1903, and many articles on ecclesiastical subjects.

Murdaugh, Claudius W., born at Ports- mouth, Virginia, December 28, 1828, son of James Murdaugh, of Nansemond county. Iswyer and legislator, and Mary Reddick, his wife, of Gates county. North Carolina. He was educated at William and Mary Col- lege and the University of Virginia, became a lawyer, and engaged in practice in Ports- mouth. He served in the legislature from 1855 till the civil war broke out. In 1861 he raised a company in Norfolk, of which he was made captain, and which became a

part of the Sixty-first Virginia Regiment. He served until the end of the war, taking part in all the battles around Richmond, at Chancellorsville ; at Salem Church, where ne was wounded ; and in others. After the war he was commonwealth's attorney, and judge of the hustings court, holding the latter position six years. He married Eugenia, daughter of John Dickson.

Sands, Alexander Hamilton, was l)orn in Williamsburg, Virginia, May 2, 1828, son of Thomas Sands, of York county. He studied at William and Mary in 1838-42, but was not graduated, read law, and in 1S43 became deput}- clerk of the state su- perior court. In 1845-49 he held the same office in the United States circuit court. He was a judge-advocate in the Confederate army during the civil war, and a short time before his death entered the Baptist minis- try, serving congregations in Ashland and Glen .\llcn, Virginia. Besides contribu- tions to periodicals, he published "History of a Suit in Equity" (Richmond, 1854J ; a new edition of Alexander Tate's "American Form-Book" (1857) ; "Recreations of a Southern Barrister" (Philadelphia, 1860) ; "Practical Law Forms" (1872) ; and "Ser- mons by a Village Pastor." He compiled "Hubbell's Legal Directory of Virginia Laws," and was the editor of the "Quarterly Law Review" and the "Evening Bulletin" (1859), both in Richmond. He died in Richmond, Virginia, December 22. 1887.

Wellford, Beverley Randolph, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 10, 1828, son of Dr. Beverley Randolph Wellford, profes- sor in the Medical College of Virginia, and Mary, his wife, daughter of William Alex- ander and Sarah Casson, his wife. He at- tended the Fredericksburg schools, and then