Cheetham, Ven. Samuel

D.D. (Cambridge, 18S0), archdeacon of Rochester, Church of England; b. at Hamble ton, County of Rutland, March 3, 1827; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. (first-cla in cla ics, senior optiine in mathematics) 1850, M.A. 1853, B.D. 1880; ordained deacon 1851, priest 1852. He was vice-principal of the Collegiate Institute, Liverpool, 1851-53; fellow (1850-66) and a istant tutor (1853-58) of Christ's College, Cambridge; vice-principal of the Theological College, Chi chester, 1861-63; profe or of pastoral theology in King's College, London, 1863- 82; chaplain of Dulwich College, 1866-84; archdeacon of South wark 1879-82, and of Rochester since 1882; and since 1883 has been canon of Rochester, and honorary fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He is also honorary fellow of King's College, London, and since 1880 examining chaplain to the bishop of Rochester. He has written, besides numerous articles, e.g., on Barrow, Jeremy Taylor, and South, in The Quarterly Review, The Law of the Land and the Law of the Mind, London, 1866; Colleges and Tests, 1871; and edited, with Dr. William Smith, Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, 1875-80, 2 vols., for which he wrote largely himself.