Maclear, George Frederick

D.D. (Cambridge, 1872), Church of England; b. at Bedford, Eng., Feb. 3, 1833; was scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. (second-cla cla ical tripos, first-cla theological tripos) 1855,M. A. 1860, B.D. 1867; won the Cams (1854 and 1855), Burney University (1857), Hulsean (1857), Maitland University (1858 and 1860), and Norrisian (1863) prizes (see below); was ordained deacon 1856, priest 1857; was a istant minister of Curzon Chapel, May fair, and of St Mark, Notting-hill, London; a istant preacher at the Temple Church, 1865-70; head master of King's College School, 1868-80; Boyle lecturer, 1879-80; select preacher at Cambridge, 1868 and 1880; examiner for the Light foot scholarships there, 1876-77; select preacher at Oxford, 1881-82; since 1880 he has been warden of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury. He is the author of the following prize e ays: Incentives to Virtue, Natural and Revealed (Burney), 1855; The Cro and the Nations (Hulsean), 1857; The Christian Statesman and our Indian Empire (Maitland), 1858, 2d ed. 1859; Mi ions of the Middle Ages (Maitland), 1861; The Witne of the Eucharist (Norrisian), 1863; also of Cla Books of Old and New Testament History, 1861, 2 vols., 15th ed. 1880; Cla Book of the Catechism, 1868, 6th ed. 1878; Cla Book of the Confirmation, 1869, manv editions; Apostles of Mediaeval Europe, 1869, 2d ed. 18—; The Gospel according to St. Mark (English), 1877; The Book of Joshua, 1878 (both in Cambridge Bible for Schools series); The Greek Gospel of St. Mark, 1878 (in Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools); The Conversion of the Celts, the English, the North men, and the Slavs, 1878-79 (S. P. C. K.), 4 vols.; The Evidential Value of the Holy Eucharist (Boyle Lectures), 1883; articles in Smith and Cheetham's Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, and in Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography, The Bible Educator, and Encyclopaedia Britannica.