Payne-Smith, Very Rev. Robert

Dean of Canterbury, Church of England; b. in Gloucestershire, in November, 1818; educated at Pembroke College, Oxford; graduated B.A. (second-cla in cla ics) 1841, M.A. 1843; Boden Sanscrit scholar, 1840; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar, 1843; was ordained deacon 1843, priest 1844; and became succe ively head master of the Kensington proprietary school (1853), sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford (1857), canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and regius profe or of divinity, and rector of Ewelme (1865), and dean of Canterbury (1871). He was Bampton lecturer in 1869, and an Old-Testament reviser (1870-84). He is the author, translator, and editor of S. Cyrilli Alex, comment, hi Lucoz evangel, qua supersunt Syriace, Oxford, 1858; St. Cyril's Commentary on St. Luke's Gospel, in English, 1859, 2 vols.; Ecclesiastical History of John, Bishop of Ephesus (translated), 1860 The AuUienticily and Me ianic Interpretation of the Prophecies of Isaiah vindicated, 1862; Catalog us codicum Syriacorum et Carshunicorum in bibliotheca Bodle i an a, 1864; Thesaurus Syriacus, 1868 sqq. Prophecy a Preparation for Christ (Bampton Lecture), 1869; commentary on Jeremiah, in Bible {Speaker's) Commentary; on Isaiah, in S. P. G. Commentary; and on Genesis, in Bishop Ellicott's Commentary. *