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An English clergyman, dean of Canterbury; born at Bombay, India, Aug. 7, 1831. Of his religious and theological writings the most notable are: "The Witness of History to Christ" (1871); "The Life of Christ" (2 vols., 1874), a work written for the people and which has had a large circulation; "Life and Works of St. Paul" (2 vols., 1879); "The Early Days of Christianity" (2 vols., 1882); "Eternal Hope", a work which has been severely criticized by the strait orthodox school on account of its lax doctrine regarding the question of everlasting punishment. He is author also of works on language, as "The Origin of Language" (1860); "Chapters on Language" (1865); "Families of Speech" (1870); "Language and Languages" (1878); He died in London, March 22, 1903.