EDEN, GEORGE RODNEY: Church of England bishop of Wakefield; b. at Sunderland (14 m. n.e. of Durham), Durham county, England, Sept. 9, 1853. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A., 1878), and became honorary fellow in 1903. He was ordered deacon in 1878 and ordained priest in 1879, and was assistant master of Aysgarth School, Yorkshire, 18?8-79, domestic chaplain to Bishop Lightfoot of Durham 1879-83, and chaplain to Bishop Lightfoot and vicar of Auckland 1883-90. In 1890 he was consecrated bishop auffragan of Dover. He was also rural dean of Auckland from 1887 to 1890, and archdeacon and canon of Canterbury, as well as chaplain of the Cirque Ports, from 1892 to 1897. He was select preacher at Cambridge in 1886, 1890, 1892, and 1894, and at Oxford in 1899-1900. In 1897 he was translated to the see of Wakefield. In theology he has sympathy for many varieties of opinion-High, Broad, and Low Church-within the Church in so far as they are compatible with loyalty to the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

EDERSHEIM, ê'ders-haim, ALFRED: Biblical scholar; b. at Vienna, Mar. 7, 1825; d. at Merton, France, Mar. 16, 1889. He was of Jewish parentage, and received his earliest education in a gymnasium of his native city and in the talmttd torah attached to a Viennese Synagogue. In 1841 he continued his studies at the University of Vienna, but left it before taking his degree on account of the financial reverses of his father. Going to Pesth as a teacher of languages, he came under the influence of John Duncan, a Scotch Presbyterian chaplain to workmen engaged in constructing a bridge over the Danube, and was converted to Christianity. Ederaheim accompanied Duncan on his return to Scotland and studied theology at New College, Edinburgh, and at the University of Berlin. In 1846 he was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. He was for a year a missionary to the Jews at Jassy, Rumania, and on his return to Scotland, after preaching for a time in Aberdeen, was installed at the Free Church, Old Aberdeen, in 1849. In 1861 failing health forced him to resign and the Church of St. Andrew was built for him at Torquay. In 1872 his health again obliged him to retire, and for four years he lived quietly at Bournemouth. In 1875 he took orders in the Church of England, and was curate of the Abbey Church, Christchurch, Hants, for a year, and from 1876 to 1882 vicar of Lodera, Dorsetahire, besides being Warburtonian Lecturer at Lincoln's Inn 1880-84. In 1882 he resigned his living and removed to Oxford. He was select preacher to the University 1884-85 and Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint 1886-88 and 1888-90. His works include History of the Jewish Nation after the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus (Edinburgh, 1856); The Temple

Its Ministry and Services at the Time of Jesus Christ (London, 1874); Bible History (7 vols., 1876-87); Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ (1876);

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The Life and Times of Jesus the. Messiah (2 vols.,

1883; condensation in one volume, 1890), his greatest work; and Prophecy and History in Relation to the Messiah (Warburton Lectures for 1880-1884, 1885); Tohurua-Vohu, "Without form and Void." A Collection of fragmentary Thoughts and Criticisms. Ed. with a Memoir, by Ella Ederaheim (1890).