Born in 1822.
Was educated at Winchester, Rugby, and Balliol College, Oxford.
Was elected Fellow of Oriel College in 1845.
For 10 years 1857-1867 he held the chair of poetry at Oxford.
Among his productions may be noted his Newdigate prize poem "Cromwell" (1843), "The Strayed Reveller," and a volume of "New Poems" published in 1869.
Later works were chiefly theological.
"St. Paul and Protestantism" (1870), "Literature and Dogma" (1873), and "God and the Bible" (1875), are among his writings.
He died in 1888.
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