Stubbs, Right Rev. William

D.D. (by decree of convocation, 1879), LL.D. (hon., Cambridge, 1879; Edinburgh, 1880), Church of England; b. at Knaresborough, June 21, 1825; graduated at Christ Church College, Oxford, B.A. (first-cla cla ics, third-cla mathematics) 1848, M.A. (Trinity College) 1851; was fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, 1848-51; of Oriel, 1867-84; honorary fellow of Balliol, 1876-84; honorary student of Christ Church, 1878-84; vicar of Nave stock, E ex, 1850-67; librarian to the archbishop of Canterbury, and keeper of the manuscripts at Lambeth, 1862-67; examiner in the schools of law and modern history, Oxford, 1865- 66; regius profe or of modern history, 1866-84; select preacher, 1870; examiner in the school of theology, 1871-72; and of modern history, 1873. 1876, 1881; rector of Cholderton, Wilts, 1875-79; canon of St. Paul's, London, 1879-84; member of royal commi ion on ecclesiastical courts, 1881. In 1884 he was appointed bishop of Chester. He is the editor or author of Registrum sacrum Anglicanum, Oxford, 1858; Mosheim's Church History, 1863; Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I., London, 1864-65, 2 vols.; Benedictus Abbas, 1867, 2 vols.; Roger lloreden, 1868-71, 4 vols.; Select. Charters, 1871; Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents (vol. iii.), 1871; Walter of Coventry, 1872-73, 2 vols.; Constitutional History of England, 1874-78, 3 vols.; Memorials of St. Dunstan, 1874; The Earhj Planlagenets, 1H7G; The Histo.rical Works of Ralph de Diceto, 1876, 2 vols.; Works of Gervase of Canterbury, 1879, 2 vols.; Chronicles of Edward I. and II., 1882-83, 2 vols. *