Gandell, Robert

Church of England; b. in London, Jan. 27, 1818; educated at St. John's and Queen's Colleges, Oxford; graduated B.A. (second-cla cla ics) 1843, Kennicott scholar 1844, Pusey and Ellerton scholar 1845, M.A. 1846; was ordained deacon 1846, priest 1847 Michel fellow of Queen's College, 1845-50; tutor of Magdalen Hall, 1848-72; lecturer in Hebrew for Dr. Pusey, 1848-82; chaplain of Corpus Christ i College, 1852-77; select preacher, 1859; Grin field lecturer on t 88 he Septuagint, 1859; senior proctor, 1860-61; examiner in " Rud. Fid. et Relig.," 1881-82; since 1856 he has been one of the four city lecturers at St. Martin Carfax, Oxford; since 1861, Laudian profe or of Arabic; since 1870, examining chaplain to the bishop of Bath and Wells; since 1874, fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and prebendary of Ashill in Wells Cathedral; since 1880 canon of Wells Cathedral, since 1884 precentor. He is the author of The Prophecy of Joel, in Hebrew, poetically arranged, London, 1849; Jehovah Goalenu (sermon), 1853; The Greater Glory of the Second Temple (sermon), 1858; edited Light foot's Horas Hebra'icce et Talmudic a, 1859, 4 vols.; contributed commentary on Amos, Nahum, and Zephaniah to The Bible (Speaker's) Commentary, 1876.