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* COLE. 135 COLENSO. gravers may be his equals, or technically cleverer than he, but there is none whose work is more substantial. He is especially ell'ective in his use of the white line and in reproducing textures; kis results iu general are produced by conserva- tive methods, in the employment of which he has gained breadth and i)Ower and ap|)rcciation of light and of the personality of his subject. He gives the intimate qualities of each school, so that there is no mistaking one for another, and yet he retains his o indiiduality. COLE'BEOOKE. See Gk.xd Falls. COLEBROOKE, Hexry Thomas ( 17G5-183T). An eminent English Orientalist. He was born in London, June 15, 1705. In 1782 he went out to India, and after serving in various civil capacities under the East India Company, was appointed professor of Sanskrit iu the newly founded college at Fort William. Afterwards he became a judge at ilirzapur. and subse- quently held the appointment of president of the Board of Revenue. During his residence in India he gained an extensive knowledge of the litera- ture of the Vedas and of the Sanskrit gram- marians, metaphysicians, and mathematicians. A sound critical judgment marks all his writings. He was a director of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal: and many of the most valuable essays in the Asiatick llescarches were contributed by him. These, with other papers by him, were republished as his Miscellaneous Essays, in 2 vols. ( 1837 ) . He likewise made translations from Sanskrit works on Hindu law, mathematics, religion, and philosophy, which have remained as important contributions to our knowledge of India (consult his llisccllaneoiis Essays, Lon- don, 1837: new ed., 1S73). Colebrooke wrote a Sanskrit ({rammar (1805), and contributed to Sanskrit lexicography by his edition of the Amarakoki (Serampur, 1808). After his re- turn to England he was made director of the Iloyal Asiatic Society. He died in London. COLE'MAN, John. An English actor and theatrical manager. He was born in the Mid- lands, and is said first to have been attracted to the stage when Macready was manager of Drury Lane. He himself won distinction as an actor, his best part, perhaps, being Henry V., but his career has been chiefly that of a manager. He was long the lessee of what was known as the Yorkshire Circuit, and l>rought out many well-known plays, among them It's Xcver Too Late to Mend. Foul Play, and Put Yourself in His Place. In London he has been lessee of the Olympic, the Queen's, and Drury Lane theatres. In 1897 he produced in Birmingham his own play of Hofigarth Aroon, appearing him- self in the title role. COLEMAN", .JoHX (1803-60). An American editor and clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, born in Baltimore. 'Sid. He was ordained priest in 1836. and from 1836 to 1856 was rector of Trinity Cluu'ch, Philadelphia. Pa. For a time he as associated with the Rev. V. Ogilby in the editorship of the Banner of the Cross, published in Philadelphia. He prepared an edition (1840; with an introduction) of George S. F.aber's Di/fi- cullies of Romanism (1820), and one (1840) of Dr. W. H. Wilmer's Episcopal Manual (1815; 2d ed., 1822). COLEMAN, Leirhtox (1837—). An Ameri- can clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. lie was born in I'hihulclpliia. Pa., graduated in 1801 at the General Theological Seminary (New York City) ; took orders a.s deacon in 18G0, and as priest in 18U2, and from ISGl to 1879 was rector of churches successively at Bustleton. Pa., Wilmington, Del,, Mauch Chunk. Pa„ and Toledo, Ohio. After residence in England from 1879 to 1887, he was rector at Sayre, Pa., in 1887-88, and in the latter year was consecrated bishop of Delaware. His pub- lications include The Church in. America (1895) ; and A History of the Church in the United States (1901, in the Oxford Church Text series). COLEMAN, Lyman (1796-1882). An Ameri- can educator and author, born at Middlefield, ilass. He graduated at Yale in 1817, was tutor there from 1820 to 1825. and later studied iu Germany, and taught German at Princeton. From 1861 to 1868 he was professor of Greek and Latin at Lafayette College, and from 1868 until his death jjrofessor of the Latin language and literature. He published Ancient Chris- tianity (1852); Historical Text-Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography (1854; revi-sed, 1859); Prelacy and Ritualism (18G9) ; and other works. COLEMAN, William Tell (1824-93). An American pioneer. He was born in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., and was educated' at Saint Louis University. In 1849 he went to California, and eventually settled in San Francisco, where he engaged in the shipping and commission busi- ness. After opening a branch in New York, he established a steamship line between that city and San Francisco in 185G. He was president of the vigilance committees (1851 and 185G) in San Francisco, and during the labor troubles of 1877 he again organized a force of several thou- sand men to preser'e order. One of his most notewoi-thy achievements w-as the embellishment and extension of the town of San Rafael, C'al. See Vigilance Committees. COLEN'SO, John William (1814-83). An English bishoj), born in Saint Austell, Cornwall. He was educated at Cambridge, was fellow and tutor in Saint .John's College ; became rector of Forncett Saint Mary, in Norfolk, in 1846, and in 1853 was appointed first Anglican Bishop of Natal, South Africa. The first of his works that attracted especial attention was .1 Translation of the Epistle to the J'omans, Commented on from a Missionary Point of Vieic (1861). The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Ex- amined (7 vols.), in which the authorship of Closes and the accuracy of many statements in the books were questioned, and the inspiration of the Old Testament denied, appeared in 1862- 79. Colenso was deposed by his Metropolitan, the Bishop of Cape Town, but the deposition was declared void by the Pri'y Council. The trustees of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund then stopped his income, but the Court of Chancery ordered it to be paid, with arrears and interest. The see of Grahamstown was erected in place of tliat of Natal, in order to carry out the effect of the spiritual sentence without conflict with the State; and for the rest of his life Colenso occupied a schismatic position. He pub- lished also Ten Weeks in Xatal (1855), and translated the Bible into the Zulu language. Consult Cox, Life of Bishop Colenso (London, 1888).