Medd, Peter Goldsmith

Church of England; b. at Leyburn in Wensleydale, Yorkshire, July 18, 1829; was scholar of University College, Oxford; graduated B.A. (first-cla cla ics) 1852, M.A. 1855; fellow of his college, 1852-77; resident fellow, lecturer, tutor, bursar, and dean of same, 1853-70; ordained deacon 1853, priest 1859; was curate of St. John Baptist, Oxford, 1858-67; rector of Barnes, 1870-76; since 1876 has been rector of North Cerney, Gloucestershire, and since 1883 proctor in convocation for diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; since 1871, examining chaplain to bishop of Rochester (afterwards St. Alban's); since 1870, member of governing council of Keble College, Oxford. He was select preacher to the University of Oxford, 1881-82; Bampton lecturer, 1882; examiner in theology at Oxford, 1877-79, 1884-86. He is an "English Catholic." He is the author of Christian Meaning of the Psalms, and Supernatural Character of Christian Truth, Oxford, 1862; Fundamental Principle of the Christian Ministry, 1867 (two volumes of university sermons); Household Prayer, London, 1864; Parish Sermons, 1877; The One Mediator (Bampton Lectures), 1884. With Dr. William Bright he edited Latin Version of the Prayer-Book, 1865, 3d ed. 1877.