Fausset, Andrew Robert

Church of England; b. at Silver hill, County Fermanagh, Ireland, Oct. 13, 1821; was scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, 1841; took the vice-chancellor's prize for Latin verse (fourth) and for Greek verse (third), 1841; Bei'keley gold medal, 1842; vice-chancellor's prize for Greek verse (second) 1842, and for Latin prose (first) 1843-44; divinity testimonium (second-cla ), 1845; graduated B.A. (senior moderator cla ics), 1843, M.A. 1846. He was ordained deacon 1847, priest 1848; became curate of Bishop Middle ham, County Durham, 1847; and rector of St. Cuthbert's, York, his present charge, 1859. He was chaplain at Bex, Switzerland, 1870, and at St. Goar on the Rhine, 1873 (both under the Church Colonial and Continental Society). He is evangelical, of the Church-of-England type of orthodoxy. He has edited Terence, with notes, Dublin, 1844; Homer's Iliad, I. -VIII., 1846; Livy, I.-IIL, 1849; Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Edinburgh, 1857, 5 vols.; Vinet's Homiletics, toith Notes, London, 1858; The Greek Testament (for the British and Foreign Bible Society), 1877 written, Scriptures and the Prayer-Book in Harmony, 1854; Ireland and the Irish, 1854; Faculties of the Lower Animals, 1858; vols. ii. and iv. of the Critical and Explanatory Pocket-Bible, Glasgow, 1862, 4 vols.; vols, iii., iv., and vi. of the Critical, Experimental, and Practical Commentary (Jamie son, Fau et, and Brown's), 1868; Horoz Psalmicce, London, 1877, 2d ed. 1885; The Church and the World, 1878; The English man's Bible Cyclopaedia, 1879; The Millennium, 1880; The Signs of the Times, 1881; Prophecy a Sure Light, 1882; The Latter Rain, 1883; True Science confirming Genesis, 1884; The Personal Antichrist, 1884; Spiritualism, 1885; Expository Commentary on the Book of Judges, 1885.