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from Spenser^ finished in 1853, and has painted in fresco the west end of the new hall at Lincoln's Inn. For some time he has exhibited regularly at the Eoyal Academy, and his principal productions have been portraits. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in Feb., 1867, and a Royal Academi- cian in 1868.

WAUGH, Edwin, born Jan. 29, 1818, at Rochdale, in Lancashire, is descended from a Border family long settled upon their own land, near Haltwhistle. He was edu- cated at Davenport's Commercial Academy, at Rochdale; was ap- prenticed to a bookseller and printer ; and after his apprenticeship worked as a printer and bookseller for nearly ten years. He was then ap- pointed secretary to the Lancashire Public School Association, for tlie promotion of a national plan of secular education. He was con- nected with this association for nearly five years; since then he has devoted himself entirely to literature. Mr. Waugh received a pension of ^90 from the Civil List in 1882. He is the author of " Lan- cashire Sketehes;" "Poems and Lancashire Songs ;" " Tufts of Heather," a series of tales ; " Fac- tory Folk during the Cotton Fa- mine ; " " Rambles in the Lake Country ; " " Snowed Up, and other Tales ;" " Rambles and Reveries ; " " Sancho's Wallet," a series of Northern anecdotes ; "The Chimney Comer," a series of coimtry tales ; '' Roads out of Manchester ;" " An Old Man's Memories;" and "The Limping Pilgrim."

WEATHERS, The Right Rev. William, D.D., a Catholic prelate, bom in 1814, was educated at St. Edmund's College, Old Hall Green, where he was ordained priest in 1838; and became professor, vice- president, and finally president in 1851, which office he continued to hold until 1869, when he was re- moved to Hammersmith to become the first President of St. Thomas's

Theological Seminary. Dr. Wea- thers was the theologian nominated by the English Bishops to assist in Rome at the preparations for the Vatican Council. He was made a domestic prelate by the Pope in 1868; and in 1872 was appointed Bishop of Amycla, i.p.i., and nomi- nated Bishop Auxiliary for the diocese of Westminster.

WEBB, The Right Rev. Allan Beecheb, D.D., Bishop of Bloem- fontein, was educated at Rugby, and gained an open scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1858, becoming subsequently a Fellow of University College. Shortly afteirhis ordination he was nominated to the Vice-Principalship of Cuddesdon Theological College, but this he left for duties connected with his fellowship. In 1867 he was presented to the rectory of Avon Dassett, near Leamington, which he resigned in 1870 on being nominated Bishop of the Orange River Free State, or Bloemfontein, in succession to Dr. Edward Twells. He was consecrated at Inverness, Nov. 30, 1870.

WEBSTER, Thomas, R.A. (re- tired), was born March 20, 1800, in Ranelagh Street, Pimlico. His father being attached to the house- hold of Oeorge III., took the child in its infancy to Windsor, where he remained till the death of that monarch. Young Webster was edu- cated in the choir of the Chapel Royal, St. James's, his father de- siring to make a chorister of him, but he preferred painting to music. His wishes being acquiesced in he entered the Royal Academy as a student in 1820, exhibited in 1823 a portrait group, and in 1825 ob- tained the first medal in the School of Painting. In the same year he exhibited at the gallery of the Society of British Artiste, in Suffolk Street, a little picture entitled "Rebels Shooting a Prisoner" (a scene of boy mischief), which at once brought him into notice. In 1827 he sent to the Royal Academy

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