Davies, John Llewelyn

Church of England; b. at Chi chester, Feb. 26, 1826; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. (senior optime and fifth in first-cla cla ical tripos) 1848, M. A. 1851; elected fellow of his college in 1850; was ordained deacon 1851, priest 1852; from 1853 till 1856, incumbent of St. Mark's, White chapel, and since has been rector of Christ Church, Marylebone, London. In 1881 he was appointed a chaplain in ordinary to the Queen, and select preacher at Oxford, and the next year rural dean of St. Marylebone. He was a contributor to Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, and to Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography. Besides five volumes of sermons, he has published (with Rev. D. J. Vaughan) a translation of Plato's Republic, London, 3d ed. 1866 The Epistles to the Ephesians, Colo i ans, and Philemon, with Introduction and Notes, and an E ay on the Traces of Foreign Elements in the Theology of these Epistles, London, 1866, 2d ed. 1884; Theology and Morality, 1873; Social Questions from the Point of View of Christian Theology, 1885.