Hervey, Right Rev. Lord Arthur Charles

D.D. (Cambridge, 1869), lord bishop of Bath and Wells, Church of England; b. in London, Aug. 20, 1808; entered Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated M.A. (first-cla cla ical tripos), 1830; ordained deacon and priest, 1832. He is the son of the first Marquis of Bristol, and after a short service as curate was appointed by his father rector of Ickworth in 1832, to which Horringer, the adjacent living (both in Suffolk), was united in 1853; and the united living was held by him until 1869. In 1862 he was promoted to the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and in 1869 was consecrated bishop of Bath and Wells. He is visitor of Wadham College, Oxford. He was a member of the Old-Testament Revision Company. lie contributed to Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, to The Bible (Speaker's) Commentary {Ruth and Samuel), to The Pulpit Commentary (Judges, Ruth, and Acts), and The Brief Commentary of the S. P. C. K. and has also published various single sermons and charges, and three volumes of collected discourses, — Parochial Sermons, London, 1850, 2 vols.; The Inspiration of Holy Scripture (four Cambridge University sermons), 1855. His most important publication is The Genealogies of out- Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as contained in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, reconciled with each oilier, and ivith the Genealogy of the House of David, from Adam to the Close of the Canon of the Old Testament, and shown to be in harmony with the True Chronology of the Times, 1853.