Martin eau, James

LL.D. (Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., U.S.A., 1872), Th.D. (Leiden, Holland, 1875), D.D. (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1884), Unitarian; b. at Norwich, Eng., April 21, 1805; educated at Norwich grammar school until 1819; Dr. Lant Carpenter's, Bristol, 1819-21; studied civil engineering, 1821-22; took course in Manchester New College, York, 1822-27 (degrees in England were then inacce ible to Non-conformists); 1827-28, master of Dr. Lant Carpenter's school, Bristol, during his absence from illne ; 1828-32, junior minister of Eustace-street Presbyterian Meeting-house, Dublin; 1832-57, minister (at first junior, then sole) of congregation of Protestant Non-conformists worshipping in Paradise-street Chapel, and since 1849 in Hope-street Church, Liverpool; with simultaneous profe orship in philosophy in Manchester New College, first in Manchester, then in London, from 1840; 1857-85, profe or of philosophy in said college, London, and principal 1869-85; with ministry of Little Portland-street Chapel (two years with Rev J. J. Tayler) from 1859-72. He was the younger brother of Harriet Martin eau. He is the author of The Rationale of Religious Enquiry, or the Question Stated of Reason, The Bible, and the Church, London, 1836, 4th ed. 1853; Unitarianism Defended (five lectures of thirteen in the Liverpool controversy, delivered in connection with J. H. Thorn and H. Giles), 1839; Hymns for the Christian Church and Home, 1840, 23d ed. 1885; Endeavours after the Christian Life, 1843-47, 2 vols., in 1 vol. 1866, 8th ed. 1886; Hours of Thought on Sacred Things, 1876-80, 2 vols.; A Study of Spinoza, 1882, 2d ed. 1883; Types of Ethical Theory, 1885, 2 vols., 2d ed. 1886; numerous separate sermons, academic addre es, and articles in reviews, some of which have been collected by American editors, and published in the following volumes: Miscellanies (edited by Rev. T. Starr King), Boston, 1852; Studies of Christianity (ed. by Rev. W. R. Alger), 1858; E ays, Philosophical and Theological, 1866-69, 2 vols., — Religion as affected by Modern Materialism, London, 1874; Modern Materialism, its Attitude towards Theology, 1876, — combined by the author and repub. 1878.