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62; pastor of the Presbyterian Brick Church in New York, 1862-63; and Professor of Biblical Literature in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1863-74, when he was transferred to the Chair of Systematic Theology, which he still holds. He has edited the most complete collection yet made of the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1853; Guericke's "Church History," 2 vols., 1857, 1870; "The Confessions of Augustine," 1860; and has written: "Outlines of a System of Rhetoric," 1850; "Lectures on the Philosophy of History," 1856; " Discourses and Essays," 1856; "History of the Christian Doctrine," 1863; "Homiletics and Pastoral Theology," 1867; "Sermons to the Natural Man," 1871; "Theological Essays," 1877; "Literary Essays," 1878; and "Commentary on Romans," 1879.


SHEPPARD, Edgar, M.D., born at Worcester in 1820, was educated at Bridgenorth Grammar School, and King's College, London. He was appointed Medical Superintendent at Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum in 1861, and Professor of Psychological Medicine in King's College, London, in 1871. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal College of Surgeons. The Southern University of America conferred on him the honorary degree of D.C.L. in 1873. Dr. Sheppard is the author of "A Fallen Faith; or, the Psychology of Quakerism;" a "Treatise on the Turkish Bath;" and "Lectures on Madness."


SHEPSTONE, Sir Theophilus, K.C.M.G., was appointed, in Jan., 1835, head-quarters interpreter of the Kaffir language at the Cape of Good Hope, and served on the staff during the Kaffir war of that year. He was also employed in various services on the frontier of the Cape Colony; was appointed Captain-in-Chief of the native forces in Natal in 1848; Judicial Assessor at Natal in 1855; Secretary for Native Affairs in 1856; member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of that colony the same year; proceeded on a special mission in 1873 to crown the King of Zululand; returned to England in Aug., 1874; and proceeded once more to Natal in Sept., 1876, to conduct negotiations between the Transvaal States and the Zulus, which resulted in his annexing the country of the Transvaal to the British Crown by proclamation, dated April 12, 1877. He was nominated a Commander of the Order of SS. Michael and George in 1869, and a Knight Commander of the same Order in 1876.


SHERBROOKE (Viscqunt), The Right Hon. Robert Lowe, son of the late Rev. Robert Lowe, rector of Bingham, Notts, by Ellen, daughter of the late Rev. Reginald Pyndar, rector of Madresfield, Worcestershire, was born at Bingham in 1811, and educated at Winchester and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated in high honours in 1833; was elected Fellow of Magdalen in 1834, and became a private tutor at Oxford. He was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn in Jan., 1842, went the same year to Australia, where he practised with much success as a barrister, and sat in the council of that colony from 1843 to 1850; was afterwards elected member for Sydney, and returned to England in 1851. He was one of the joint-secretaries of the Board of Control from Dec., 1852, till Feb., 1855; was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Paymaster-General in Aug., 1855, retiring on the return of Lord Derby to power in 1858; was appointed Vice-President of the Education Board in June, 1859, and resigned in April, 1864. He has been a member of the Senate of the University of London since 1860, was returned member for Kidderminster in July, 1852, and represented that borough till April, 1859, when he was elected for Calne. During the sessions of 1866 and 1867