Meyrick, Frederick

Church of England; b. at Ramsbury Vicarage, Wilts hire, Jan. 28, 1827; entered Trinity College, Oxford; graduated B.A. (second-cla in cla ics) 1847, M.A. 1850; ordained deacon 1850, priest 1852; was a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, 1847-60, and tutor in it, 1851-59; in 1856 public examiner in cla ics preacher at the Chapel Royal, White hall, 1856 select preacher before the University of Oxford, 1855-56, 1865-66, 1875-76; examiner for the Johnson theological scholarship at Oxford, 1859; one of her Majesty's inspectors of schools from 1859 to 1869; examining chaplain to Bishop Christopher Words worth, 1869-85; since 1868 rector of Blickling, Norfolk; and since 1869 non res i Hent i ary canon of Lincoln. He was tutor to the late and the present Marquis of Lothian from 1847-53, when the rest of the family, with their exception, joined the Church of Rome. In 1853 he founded the Anglo-Continental Society (now numbering six hundred, with two hundred publications), for making known upon the Continent the principles of the Anglican Church, and promoting the principles of the English Reformation abroad. As secretary of this society he has edited many dogmatic and controversial treatises in Latin, Italian, Spanish, etc. He attended the Bonn Conference of 1875, and formed one of the Committee on the Doctrine of the Proce ion of the Holy Spirit. His theological standpoint is "that of the historical school of Anglican divines, commencing with Bishop Andrewes, and ending with Dean Hook and Bishop Christopher Words worth." Since 1877 he has edited The Foreign Church Chronicle and Review. His writings are very numerous (see list in Crock ford's Clerical Directory for 1886), and include contributions to Smith's Dictionaries of the Bible and of Christian Antiquities, The Bible (Speaker's) Commentary (Joel and Obadiah, 1876; Ephesians, 1880), The Pulpit Commentary (Levitic us, 1882), The Theological Library (Is Dogma a Nece ity f 1883), etc. Of general interest may be mentioned, The Practical Working of the Church of Spain, London, 1850- 51; Clerical Tenure of Fellowships, Oxford, 1854; Moral and Devotional Theology of the Church of Rome, London, 1856; Correspondence with Old Catholics and Orientals, 1877-78,4 series; The Old Catholic Movement, 1877; Sketches of Dollinger (1879) and of Hyacinthe (1880); The Doctrine of the Church of Engla 156 nd on the Holy Communion, 1885; editions of works of Bishop Cosin, Andrewes, Hall, etc.