Ryle, Right Rev. John Charles

D.D. (by diploma, 18S0), lord bishop of Liverpool, Church of England; b. at Macclesfield, May 10, 1816; entered Christ Church, Oxford; took Craven University scholarship in 1836; graduated B.A. (first-cla in cla ics) 1837, M. A. 1871; became succe ively curate of Exbury, Hants, 1841; rector of St. Thomas, Winchester, 1843; of Helming ham, Suffolk, 1844; vicar of Strad broke, Suffolk, 1861 (rural dean, 1870; honorary canon of Norwich Cathedral, 1872; select preacher at Cambridge 1873-74, at Oxford 1874-76); dean designate of Salisbury, 1880 (never took po e ion, because within a short time after nomination he became bishop of Liverpool, upon the formation of the diocese, 1880). tracts on doctrinal and practical subjects, of which more than two millions have been circulated, and many have been translated into foreign langua 197 ges (they are now published in six volumes); Coming Events and Present Duties, 1867, 2d ed. 1879; Bishops and Clergy of Other Days, London, 1868; The Christian Leaders of the Last Century (in England), 1869; Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856-69, 7 vols., 11th ed. 1873-79. S. s.