Light foot, Right Rev. Joseph Barber

D.D. (Cambridge, 1864; Durham, 1879), D.C.L. (Oxford, 1879), LL.D. (Glasgow, 1879), lord bishop of Durham, Church of England; b. at Liverpool, April 13, 1828; entered Trinity College, Cambridge; obtained a scholarship in 1849; graduated B.A. (wrangler, senior cla ic, and senior medallist) 1851 r M. A. 1854; elected fellow of his college, 1852; in 1853 he was Norrisian prizeman. He was ordained deacon in 1854, and priest in 1858. In 1857 he was appointed tutor in his college; in 1858 was select preacher to the University of Cambridge; in 1861 became chaplain to the late Prince Consort, and Hulsean profe or of divinity at Cambridge; in 1862, examining chaplain to the bishop of London (Dr. Tait), and honorary chaplain in ordinary to the Queen; in 1866 and 1867 was White hall preacher. In 1869, Dr. Tait being elevated to the see of Canterbury, he became one of his examining chaplains, and remained so until 1879. From 1871 to 1879 lie was canon residentiary of St. Paul's Cathedral, London; in 1874 and 1875 he was select preacher at Oxford. In 1875 here signed his Hulsean profe orship, and became Lady Margaret profe or of divinity, Cambridge,, and in the same year deputy clerk of the closet to her Majesty. In 1879 he was recommended by the Earl of Beacons field to the then vacant see of Durham, and was consecrated bishop in Westminster Abbey. His remarkable scholarship is shown in his commentaries on Galatians (London, 1865, 8th ed. 1884), Philip pians (1868, 7th ed. 1883), Colo i ans, and Philemon (1875, 8th ed. 1886), and on the Apostolic Fathers, S. Clement of Rome (1860; appendix volume, containing the complete second epistle discovered by Bryennios, 1877), *S. Ignatius, and £. Polycarp (1885, 2 vols.). Each of these commentaries contains a revised Greek text, introduction, notes, and di ertations. The last is a peculiar feature of great interest and value. Dr. Light foot was one of the original members of the New-Testament Company of Bible Revisers, and wrote On a Fresh Prevision of the English New Testament, 1871, 2d ed. 1872 (republished, with permi ion, by Dr. Schaff, New York, 1873).