William Motntford

William Motntford, an American clergyman, born in Kidderminster, England, May 31, 1816. He was educated at Manchester New college, and was minister of a Unitarian chapel in Manchester from 1838 to 1841, when he went to Lynn-Regis. In 1850 he removed to the United States, and soon after became minister of the first Unitarian church in Gloucester, Mass. He was in France and Italy from 1856 to 1860, when he returned, and has since resided in Boston. He has published "Mar-tyria, a Legend" (London, 1845; Boston, 1846); "Christianity the Deliverance of the Soul and its Life," sermons (London, 1846); "Euthanasy, or Happy Talks toward the End of Life " (Boston, 1848; with additions, 1850; new ed., 1874); "Thorpe, a quiet English Town, and Human Life therein" (1852); and "Miracles, Past and Present" (1870).

William Mure

William Mure, a Scottish author, born at Caldwell, Ayrshire, July 9, 1799, died in London. April 1, 1860. He was educated at Westminster school and the university of Edinburgh, and completed his studies in Germany. He published "Remarks on the Chronology of the Egyptian Dynasties" (1829), "A Dissertation "on the Calendar of the Zodiac of Ancient Egypt " (1832). " Journal of a Tour in Greece " (1838), and "Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece" (5 vols., 1850-'57), width was left unfinished. He represented Renfrewshire in parliament from 1846 to 1855, and in 1847-'8 was lord rector of the university of Glasgow.

William Murray

See Mansfield.

William Nassau Molesworth

William Nassau Molesworth, an English author, born at Millbrook, near Southampton, Nov. 8,1816. He graduated at Cambridge, and in 1841 became incumbent of a church at Manchester, and in 1844 vicar at Rochdale, His works include "A History of the Reform Bill of 1832" (London, 1864); "A New System of Moral Philosophy," and a " Prize Es-syon Education"(1867); and '-The History of England, from the Year 1830" (3 vols London. 1871-4).

William Newcome

William Newcome, an English archbishop, born at Abingdon, Berkshire, April 10, 1729, died in Dublin, Jan. 11, 1800. He was educated at Oxford, and distinguished himself as a tutor. He became bishop of Dromore in 1766, of Ossory in 1775, of Waterford in 1779, and archbishop of Armagh in 1795. The most important of his works are: " The Harmony of the Gospels" (1778); "Observations on our Lord's Conduct as a Divine Instructor" (1782); "New Critical Version of the Twelve Minor Prophets and Ezekiel" (1785-'8); "An Historical View of the English Biblical Translations" (1792); and "An Attempt toward Revising our English Translation of the Greek Scriptures" (1796).

William Of Champeaijx

William Of Champeaijx, a French scholar, born at Champeaux, near Melun, in the latter part of the 11th century, died in 1121. He studied in Paris under Anselme of Laon, and became archdeacon of Notre Dame, and a teacher at the school of that cathedral. He was a prominent champion of scholastic realism. Among his pupils was Abelard, who soon eclipsed him to such an extent that William retired and entered a monastery. In 1113 he founded the abbey of St. Victor in a suburb of Paris. He afterward resumed his lectures, but was finally driven from the field by the superior popularity of Abéard, and was appointed archbishop of Châlons. He was involved in the controversy concerning the right of investiture; in 1119 he represented Pope Calixtus II. in the conference at Mousson. Only a few of his treatises are extant. - See Guillaume de Champeaux et les écoles de Paris au XII siècle, by E. Michaud (Paris, 1867).