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 ELIOT— BLLICOTT.

e was Tutor in Mathe- Harvard, 1854-58; As- rofessor of Mathematics aistry, 1858-61; of Che- J61-63 ; Professor of Che- the Massachusetts In- rechnology, 1865-69 ; and in President of Harvard ^. In conjunction with orer he has written a of Inorganic Chemistry," a " Manual of Qualitative Analysis/' 1869, besides mtributions to scientific

Samuel, LL.D., born in )C. 22, 1821. He graduated i College in 1839 ; was for \ engaged in mercantile in Boston, and subse- ravelled in Europe. In iblished some " Passages iistory of Liberty," that aded to form a part of a of Liberty," which he tated for several years, instalment appeared in ler the title of "The Bome," altered to that >ry of Liberty, Part I., at Bomans ;" followed in Part II., "The Early ." In 1856 he published al of the United States (tween the years 1792 and id in 1880 a selection of For Children." He was of History and Political L Trinity College, Hart- i 1856 to 1864, and Pre- bhe College from 1860 to 1871-3 he was Lecturer d; from 1872-76 Head- Girls' High School in md from 1878 to 1880 ident of the Boston lools.

)TT, The Right Rev. John, D.D., Bishop of 1819, at Whitwell, near of which parish his father, Charles Spencer EUicott,
 * and Bristol, was born
 * . He received his early

at Oakham and Stamford

schools, and then proceeded to Ca bridge, where he graduated B. with honours in 1841, and in elected a Fellow of St. John's O lege. In 1842 he carried off t first Member's prize, and in the I lowing year the Hulsean prize " The History and Obligation of t Sabbath." In 1848 he was collat to the rectory of Pilton, in Rutlao shire, but he resigned this sm living ten years later on bei: chosen to succeed Dr. Trench, t present Archbishop of Dublin, Professor of Divinity in King's C lege, London. In 1859 he was s pointed Hulsean Lecturer, and the following year was elect Hulsean Professor of Divinity the University of Cambridge. T Hulsean Lectures for 1860 " On t Life of our Lord Jesus Christ " d played profound theological eru< tion, and showed that their autb possessed a critical knowledge the Greek language. They i tracted much attention even I yond the limits of the universil and it became obvious that Dr. £1 cott would be selected for hij preferment in the church. He w nominated by the Crown to t Deanery of Exeter in 1861, and 1863 to the united sees of Gloucest and Bristol, which had been vacat by the translation of Bishop Tho] son to York. A principal feature Bishop Ellicott's episcopate is sa to be his heartjr sympathy with t clergy of different theologic " schools of thought." To him t diocese of Gloucester and Brisi owes its Theological College, ai the city of Bristol its " Church A Fund " for supplying spiritual he of a missionary kind to its ov€ grown parishes. He has also ins tuted a plan of issuine every yeai Pastoral Letter, in which he coi ments on passing ecclesiastic events, without waiting to deal wi them for the first time in a Trienni Charge. His lordship takes an s tive part in the deliberations of t Upi)er House of the Convocation