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 SCUDDER

SEABURY

Butterflies (1899); Catalogue of the Described Orthoptera of the United States and Canada (1900); Adephagous and Clavicoru Coleox)tera from the Tertiary Deposits at Florissant, Cvlo. (1900); Index to the Orthoptera of Xorth America described in the Eighteenth and Nine- teenth Centuries (1902.)

SCUDDER, Vida Dutton, educator, was born in Madura, India, Dec. 15, 1861; daugliter of the Rev. David Coit (1835-1862) and Harriet Louisa (Dutton) Scudder; grand-daughter of Charles and Sarah (Coit) Scudder, and of George and Mary (Pomeroy) Dutton of Boston, Mass. She was graduated from Smith college, Northampton, Mass., A.B., 1884; continued her education in Oxford, England, and in Pai'is, France, and be- came connected with the formation of college settlements. She was an instructor in English literature at Wellesley college, Mass., 1887-92, and in 1892 became associate professor of Eng- lish literature. She edited: '* Selected Poems " from George MacDonald (1887); Macaulay's "Lord Clive," (1889); "Introduction to the AVritings of John Ruskin " (1890), and Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" (1892); and is the author of: Hoio the Rain Sprites icere Freed (1883); The Life of the Sjnrit in the 3Iodern Eng- lish Poets (1895); The Witness of DenmZ (1896); Social Ideas in English Letters (1898); Introduc- tion to the Study of English Literature (1901); A Listener in Babel; Being a Series of Imaginary Conversations (1903).

SEABROOK, Benjamin Whitemarsh, gover- nor of South Carolina, was born in 1795. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1812; became a planter at Edisto Island, S. C, and served as a state senator, and was governor of the state, 1848-50. He was president of the State Agricultural so- ciety, and is the author of: Essay on the Management of Slaves (1834) and a Memoir of the Origin, Ctdtivation and Uses of Cotton (1844). He died in St. Luke's parish, S. C, April 16, 1856.

SEABURY, Samuel, first bisliop of Connecti- cut, and 1st of the succession in the American episcopate, was born in Groton, Conn., Nov. 30, 1729; son of the Rev. Samuel (1706-1764) and Abigail (Mumford) Seabury; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Alden) Seabuiy and of Thomas and Hannah (Remington) Mumford. and a de- scendant of John Seabury, who emigrated from Porlock, Somersetshire, England, to the Barba- does, and from there in 1639 to Boston, Massa- chusetts Bay Colony. Samuel Seabury (1706- 1764) after being ordained in England, organized the parish of St. James, New London, Conn., of

which he was rector, 1732-43; and resided at Hempstead, N.Y., as rector of St. George's church, 1743-64. It was amid this atmosphere of church influence that the son spent his boyhood and received his preparation for college and for the priesthood. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., and fourth in the class of 1748 (A.M. 1751), and served as catechist and pursued a course in theology vmder the direction of his father, 1748- 51. He was then sent to England to receive orders, and before ordination studied medicine in the University of Edinburgh. He was ordered deacon by the Bishop of Lincoln (Dr. John Thomas) Deo. 21, 1753, and advanced to the priesthood by the Bishop of Carlisle (Dr. Richard Osbaldiston) two days later. On his return to America, with the license of Slierlock, Bishop of London, to officiate in New Jerse}', he was elected rector of Christ Church, in New Brunswick in that province, and served this parish, 1754-57. While at New Brunswick, he was married, Oct. 12, 1756, to Mary, daughter of Edward Hicks of New York. He was then called to Grace church, Jamaica, L.I., N.Y., where he was rector. 1757- 66, and in 1766 was inducted into the rectorship of St. Peter's, West Chester, which he held for about ten years. In November, 1775, he was taken by a band of armed men under Sears to New Haven, where he was imprisoned for six weeks, being finally released on requisition of the governor of New York as a citizen taken from his province without process of law. Returning to his parish he found hostilities commenced, and being unable to continue his duties he closed the church and took refuge in New York where he in part supported his family by the practice of medicine, serving also through the war as chap- lain of the King's American Regiment, under commission of Sir Henry Clinton (Feb. 14, 1778). Upon the recognition of the Independence of the American States he was elected by the clergy of English ordination in Connecticut (AVoodbury, March 25, 1783), to be the bishop of the church in that state, and sailed for England with credentials as an applicant for consecration by the English bishops, with instructions that failing in this quest he should apply to the bishops of the Scot- tish church, whose line of succession back of the time of Ciiarles II. was identical with that of the English episcopate, but who had lost their civil status by refusal to swear allegiance to the suc- cessors of James II. The English bishops could not legally confer consecration without the oath of allegiance to the king, which could not be taken by one who was to exercise his office in a foreign state. Various other difficulties were sug- gested, but this was the main point. The bishops could not dispense with the oatli; the king and privy council would not: and, in the vain