Jacob son, Right Rev. William

D.D. (by Convocation of Canterbury, 1848), lord bishop of Chester, Church of England; b. at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in the year 1803; d. at Chester, July 13, 1884. He was educated at the Di enting College, Homerton, Middle sex, and afterwards at Lincoln College, Oxford; graduated B.A. (second-cla cla ics) 1827, M.A. 1829; won Ellerton theological prize for e ay: " What were the Causes of the Persecution to which the Christians were subject in the First Centuries of Christianity 1 elected fellow of Exeter College, 1829; was curate of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, 1830-32; perpetual curate of Iffley, 1839-40; vice-principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1832-48; public orator of the university, 1842-48; regius profe or of divinity, canon of Christ Church, and rector of Ewelrne, Oxford, 1848-65; bishop of Chester, 1865 till his death. He was select preacher to the university, 1833, 1842, and 1869; elected honorary fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, 1874. He was on the Royal Commi ion of 1864, to consider the terms of clerical subscription. He edited Dean Rowell's Catechism us, sive prima institutio disciplinaque piet at is Christian a, Latine explicata, Oxford, 1835, 2d ed. 1844; Patres Apostolic i (Clemens Roman us, Ignatius, Polycarp, martyrdoms of Ignatius and Polycarp), 1838, 2 vols., 4th ed. 1863; The Oxford Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the Epistles of St. Paul, 1852; The Collected Works of Bishop Sanders on, 1854, 6 vols.; Fragmentary Illustrations of the History of the Book of Common Prayer, from MS. Sources (Bishops Sanders on and Wren), 1874; was the author of Sermons preached in the Parish Church of Iffley, Oxon., 1840, 2d ed. 1846; On the Alhanasian Creed (a speech in the Convocation of York), 1872; the commentary on the Acts in The Bible (Speaker's) Commentary, London and Newr York, 1880; and a number of charges and single sermons. *