Humphry, William Gilson

Church of England; b. at Sndbury, Suffolk,. Jan. 30, 1815; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. (twenty-seventh wrangler, senior cla ic, second chancellor medallist) 1837 117, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1850; ordained deacon 1842, priest 1843; was elected fellow of his college (1837), and a istant tutor. From 1847 to 1856 he was examining chaplain to the bishop of London; in 1849 and 1850, Hulsean lecturer; in 1857 and 1858, Boyle lecturer; and from 1852 to 1855 he was vicar of North holt, Middle sex. In 1852 he became prebendary of Twyford in St. Paul's Cathedral, and in 1855 vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and was rural dean of St. Martin-in-the- Fields.deanery. He sat upon the Clerical Subscription Commi ion in 1865, and upon the Ritual Commi ion in 1869. He was a member of the New-Testament Company of the Bible-revision Committee; and the thanksgiving service of the company was held in his church, Nov. 11, 1880. He is the author of A Commentary on Acts, London, 1847, 2d ed. 1854; The Boctrine of a Future State (Hulsean Lecture for 1849), 1850; The Early Progre of the Gospel (Hulsean Lecture for 1851), 1851; An Historical and Explanatory Treatise on the Book of Common Prayer, 1853, 5th ed. 1874; The Miracles (Boyle Lectures for 1857), 1858; The Character of St. Paul (Boyle Lectures for 1858), 1859; A Commentary on the Revised Version of the N.T.,for English Readers, 1882; edited Theophilus of Antioch, 1852, and Theophylact on St. Matthew, 1854; one of the authoi'S of A Revised Version of St. John's Gospel and the Epistles to the Romans and Corinthians, 1857-58. Died Jan. 10, 1885. *