WELLAND, THOMAS JAMES: Anglican bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, Ireland; b. in Dublin Mar. 31, 1830; d. at Belfast July 29, 1907. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1854), and was ordered deacon in 1854 and ordained priest in the following year; was curate of Carlow (1854-56); perpetual curate of Painstown, County Carlow (1856-58); assistant chaplain of Mariner's Church, Kingstown, County Dublin (1858-62); clerical secretary of the Jews' Society (18626); assistant chaplain of Christ Church, Leeson Street, Dublin (1866-70); incumbent of St. Thomas, Belfast, and chaplain of Malone Protestant Reformatory (1870-92), and in 1892 was consecrated bishop of the united dioceses of Down, Connor, and Dromore.

WELLDON, JAMES EDWARD COWELL: Church of England; b. at Tunbridge (16 m. s.w. of Rochester), Kent, Apr. 25, 1854. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1877), and, after residing abroad for some years, was ordered deacon in 1883 and ordained priest in 1885. He was elected a fellow of his college in 1878; was master of Dulwich College, 1883-85; headmaster of Harrow School, 1885-98; select preacher at Cambridge in 1885, 1888, and 1893, and at Oxford in 1886-87; honorary chaplain to the queen, 1888-92, and chaplain in ordinary, 1892-98; and Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1897. In 1898 he was consecrated bishop of Calcutta and metropolitan of India, but in 1901 resigned his see and was canon of Westminster 1901-06, and since 1906 dean of Manchester. Besides translating Aristotle's Poli-

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tics (London, 1883); Rhetoric (1886); and Nico machean Ethics .(1892), he has written Sermons Preached to Harrow Boys (3 series, London, 1887-1903); The Spiritual Life, and Other Sermons (1888); The Friars anal the Past (1888); Gerald Eversley's Friendship (1895); The Hope of Immortality (1898; 3d ed., 1905); The Revelation of the Holy Spirit (1902); The School of Faith (1904); Be Strong. Lessons for Young Lives (1907); and The Gospel in a

Great City (1910).

WELLER, REGINALD HEBER, JR.: Protestant Episcopal bishop coadjutor of Fond du Lao; b. at Jefferson City, Mo., Nov. 6, 1857. He was educated at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. (1875-77), and at Naahotah House (graduated 1884). He was ordered deacon in 1880 and priested in 1884, and was rector of Christ Church, Eau Claire, Wis. (1884-88), St. Matthias, Waukesha, Wis. (1888-1890), and the Church of the Intercession, Stevens Point, Wis. (1890-1900). In 1900 he was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Fond du Lao, Wis.