Chance, Frank

Church of England, layman; b. at High gate, London, June 22, 1826; graduated in arts and in medicine at Cambridge (6. A. 1854, M.B. 1855, licentiate in medicine 1857); became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 1856; of the Royal College of Physicians, London, 1859; fellow of the latter, 1863. He paid special attention to Hebrew while at Cambridge, and was Tyrwhitt's University Hebrew scholar in 1854. Since 1864 his health has prevented his continued practice of medicine. He became a member of the Old-Testament Company of Bible Revisers in 1875. He has translated Virchow's Cellular Pathology, London, 1860; edited H. H. Bernard's Commentary on Job, 1864, re-i ued (with appendix), 1884; and written many philological notes in Notes and Queries. CHANN1NC, William Henry, Unitarian, nephew of William Ellery Channing; b. in Boston, May 25, 1810; d. in London, Dec. 23, 1884. He graduated at Harvard College, 1829, and at the Cambridge Divinity School, 1833; and was ordained at Cincinnati, May 10, 1839. After holding various pastorates in America, he went to England in 1857, and succeeded Rev. Dr. James Martin eau as minister of the Hope-street Unitarian Chapel in Liverpool. He returned to America in 1866, and became minister of the Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C.; but for the last fourteen years of his life he lived in England. He was an earnest social reformer and eloquent preacher. Besides numerous contributions to periodical literature, he published a translation of Jouffroy's Introduction to Ethics, Boston, 1840, 2 vols.; Memoirs of William Ellery Charming, 1848, 3 vols.; Memoirs of Rev. James H. Perkins, 1851, 2 vols.; (with R. W. Emerson and J. F. Clarke) Memoirs of Margaret Fuller O oli, 1851, 2 vols.; The Christian Church and Social Reform: (edited) W. E. Channing's The Perfect Life (sermons), 1872. *