HURD, RICHARD: Bishop of Worcester; b. at Congreve (6. m. a. of Stafford), Staffordshire, Jan. 13, 1720; d. May 28, 1808. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (B.A., 1739; M.A., 1742; B.D., 1746; D.G_ 1768), and became a fellow there in 1742. By a judicious compliment in the preface of his annotated edition of Horace's Ars poetics (London, 1749) he won the patronage of Bishop Warburton, through whose recommendation he was appointed one of the preachers at Whitehall in 1750. He was presented to the rectory of Thurcaston, Leicestershire, in 1757, appointed preacher at Lincoln's Inn in 1765, and collated to the archdeaconry of Gloucester in 1767. He was elevated to the see of Litchfield and Coventry in 1774, and appointedpreceptor to the prince of Wales and the duke of York in 1776. He was translated to Worcester in 1781. Two years later he was offered the tree of Canterbury, which he declined. Hurd was a moderate Tory and churchman and a man of considerable literary ability. His principal works are: the Commentary published with his edition of

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Horace's Ars poetics (London, 1749; Moral and Political Dialogues (1759), in which historical personages discuss various topics; Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), which helped to initiate the Romantic movement; An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies Concerning the Christian Church (1772; 5th ed., 2 vols., 1788, being Warburton lectures delivered at Lincoln's Inn; and Sermons (3 vols., 1776-80). He edited, among other things, Warburton's Works (7 vols., 1788), and left materials for an annotated edition of Addison's Works (6 vols., 1811). His own Works were published, with an autobiography, in 8 vols., 1811.

Bibliography: F. Kilveit, Memoirs of the Life and Writinge of Richard Hurd, London, 1880; John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century, London, 1812-15; DNB, xzviii: 314-318.

HURLBUT, JESSE LYMAN: Methodist Episcopalian; b. in New York City Feb. 14, 1843. He was educated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (A.B., 1864), and after teaching for a year (1864-65) in Pennington Seminary, Pennington, N. J., entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry. He held various pastorates from 1865 to 1879, when he was appointed an agent of the Sunday School Union of his denomination, a position which he held five years. From 1884 to 1888 he was assistant Sunday-school literature editor, and from 1888 to 1900 was full editor, and also secretary, of the Sunday School Union and Tract Society. In 1900 he resumed the ministry, and was pastor at Morristown, N. J., and since 1904 has held a pastorate at South Orange, N. J. He has been active in Chautauqua work, and was one of the founders of the Epworth League, of which he was secretary in 1889-92. Special mention may be made of his American History (New York, 1880); Life of Christ (1882); Manual of Biblical Geography (Chicago, 1884); Studies in the Four Gospels (New York, 1889); Studies in Old Testament History (1890); Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope (1900); From Saul to Solomon: Studies in Old-Testament History (1903); Story of the Bible told for Young and Old (Philadelphia, 1904); Stories from the Old and New Testaments (1904); Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers (New York, 1905); and Sunday Half Hours with Great Preachers (1908). He has prepared numerous volumes on Sunday School lessons, many of them in collaboration with J. H. Vincent.