Blackwood, William

D.D. (Lafayette College, Penn, 1857), LL.D. (New-York University, 1871), Presbyterian; b. at Dromara, County Down, Ireland, June 1, 1804; graduated at the Royal College, Belfast, 1832; became pastor succe ively of the Presbyterian churches of Holy wood, near Belfast, 1835; of Trinity Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1843; and of the Ninth Church, Philadelphia, Penn., 1850. He was secretary to the Education Committee of the Irish Presbyterian Church, 1834-40; and mathematical examiner of students under care of the Synod of Ulster, 1839-43; and was moderator of the Presbyterian Church in England, 1846. Besides numerous -magazine, review, and newspaper articles, he has written e ays on Mi ions to the Heathen, Belfast, 1830; Atonement, Faith, and A urance, Philadelphia, 1856; Bellarmine's Notes of the Church, 1858; and edited the papers of the late Rev. Richard Webster (which at his death had been left in a fragmentary state), with introduction and indexes, and published them under the title Webster's History of the Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1857; also the Biblical, Theological, Biographical, and Literary Encyclopaedia, 1873-76, 2 vols. (4to illust.).