Burgess, Henry

Ph.D. (Gottingen, 1852), LL.D. (Glasgow, 1851), Church of England; b. in the parish of St. Mary, Newing ton, London, Jan. 29, 1808; was educated at the Di enting College at Stepney, and distinguished himself in Hebrew and the cla ical languages. After graduation (1830), he became Baptist minister at Suson. But after a time he thought best to alter his church relations (1849), and was ordained deacon 1850, and priest 1851, by the Bishop of Manchester; became curate at Black burn, 1851 perpetual curate of Clifton Reynes, Bucking hams hire, 1854; vicar of St. Andrew's, Whittle sey, near Peter borough, 1861; d. Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1886. He edited The Clerical Journal, 1854-68; The Journal of Sacred Literature; the second edition of Kitto's Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature, Edinburgh, 1856, 2 vols. He is the translator from the Syriac of The Festal Letters of St. A than as i us, London, 1852; and Metrical Hymns and Homilies of St. Ephrem Syrus, 1853; and author of Luther, his Excellences and Defects, 1857; The Reformed Church of England hi its Principles and their Legitimate Development, 1869; E ays, Biblical and Ecclesiastical, relating chiefly to the Authority and Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, 1873; Disestablishment and Disendowment, 1875; The Art of Preaching and the Composition of Sermons, 1881.