Burgon, Very Rev. John William

B.D., dean of Chi chester, Church of England; b. at Smyrna, Asia Minor, Aug. 21, 1813; educated at Worcester College, Oxford, graduated B.A. (second-cla cla ics), 1845, M.A. (Oriel), 1848, B.D., 1871; wrote the Newdigate prize poem, 1845, the Ellerton theological e ay, 1847, the Denyer theological' e ay, 1851; was elected a fellow of Oriel College, 1846; ordained deacon, 1848, priest, 1849; Gresham lecturer in divinity, 1868; became vicar of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1863; dean of Chi chester, 1876. He has written The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham, London, 1839, 2 vols.; Petra, a Poem, 1846; Oxford Reformers, 1854; A Plain Commentary on the Four Holy Gospels, 1855, 8 vols., new ed. 1877, 4 vols., reprinted Philadelphia, 1868, 2 vols. Historical Notices of the Colleges of Oxford, 1857; Plain Commentary on the Book of Psalms (P.B. Version), 1857, 2 vols.; Inspiration and Interpretation (answer to E ays and lievieius), 1861; Letters from Rome to Friends in England, 1862; A Treatise on the Pastoral Office, 1864; Ninety-one Short Sermons, 1867, 2 vols.; Disestablishment, the Nation's Formal Rejection of God and Denial of the Faith, 1868; England and Rome. Three Letters to a Pervert, 1869; The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel according to St. Mark vindicated against recent Critical Objectors and established, 1871; The A than asian Creed to be retained in its integrity, and why, 1872; A Plea for the Study of Divinity in Oxford, 1875; The Revision revised. Three Articles from the Quarterly Review, 1883; Ten Lives of Good Men, 1885; Poems, 1885