Perry, George Gresley

Church of England; b. at Church ill, Somerset, Dec. 21, 1820; scholar of Corpus Christ i College, Oxford, 1837; graduated B.A. (second-cla cla ics) 1840, M.A. (Lincoln College) 1843; was fellow of Lincoln College, 1842-52, in which was tutor, 1847-52; master of the schools, 1847-48; ordained deacon 1844, priest 1845; has been rector of Wadding ton, Lincoln shire, since 1852; rural dean of Long obo by; canon and prebendary of Milton Manor in Lincoln Cathedral since 1861; proctor for diocese of Lincoln, 1867-81; proctor in the Convocation of Canterbury. He is a moderate Anglican. He is the author of History of the Church of England from the Death of Elizabeth to the Present Century, London, 1861-64, 3 vols.; Victor: a Tale of the Great Persecution, 1864; Life of Bishop Gro eteste, 1865; History of the Crusades, 1865, 3d ed. 1872; Croy- Land Abbey, 1867; Christian Fathers, 1870; Vox ecclesice Anglicanaz, 1870; Student's Manual of English Church History, part i. 1881, part ii. 1877, 3d ed 1885; Life of St. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 1879; The Reformation in England, 1886.