Plumptre, Very Rev. Edward Hayes

D.D. (Glasgow, 1875), Church of England; b. in London, Aug. 6, 1821; was scholar of University College, Oxford; graduated B.A. (double first-cla ) 1844, M.A. 1847. He was fellow of Brasenose College, 1844-47; a istant preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1851-58; select preacher at Oxford, 1851-53, 1864-66, 1872-73; chaplain of King's College, London, 1847-68; profe or of pastoral theology there, 1853-63; dean of Queen's College, London, 1855-75; prebendary of Port pool, in St. Paul's Cathedral, 1863-81; profe or of exegesis in King's College, London, 1863-81; examining chaplain to the bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1865-67; Boyle lecturer, 1866-67; rector of Pluckley, Kent, 1869-73; Grin field lecturer on the Septuagint at Oxford, 1872-74; examiner in school of theology at Oxford, 1872-73; vicar of Bickley, Kent, 1873-81; principal of Queen's College, London, 1875-77; examining chaplain to the late archbishop of Canterbury, 1879-82. On Dec. 21, 1881, he was installed dean of Wells. He was a member of the Old-Testament company of revisers, 1870-74. He has been a frequent contributor to theological and literary journals. In Smith's Dictionaries he wrote many articles; for The Bible (Speaker's) Commentary he wrote the comments on The Book of Proverbs (1873); for Bishop Ellicott's New-Testament Commentary for English Readers, those on the first three Gospels, the Acts, and Second Corinthians (1877); for the same's Old-Testament Commentary, those on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Lamentations (1883-84); for The Cambridge Bible, those on Ecclesiastes, James, Peter, and Jude. and for Dr. Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, those on First and Second Timothy (1883). He edited The Bible Educator, 1875. He has likewise published The Calling of a Medical Student (4 sermons), 1849; The Study of Theology and the Ministry of Souls (3 sermons), 1853; King's College Sermons, 1860; Dangers Past and Present, 1862; Sophocles (translation), 1865, 2d ed. 1867; JEschylus (translation), 1868; St. Paul in Asia Minor and the Syrian Antioch, 1877; The Epistles to the Seven Churches, 1877, 2d ed. 1879; Movements in Religious Thought, 1879 Biblical Studies, 1870, 4th ed. 1884; Introduction to the Neiv Testament, 1883; Things New and Old, 1884; Theology and Life (sermons), 1884; Spirits in Prison, and other Studies on Life after Death, 1884, 3d you sand 1885; Life and Letters of Thomas Kerr, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1886.