WINSLOW, MIRON (MYRON):, Congregational missionary; b. at Williston, Vt., Dec. 11., 1789; d. at the Cape of Good Hope Oct. 22, 1864. He was graduated from Middlebury College, 1815, and from Andover Theological Seminary, 1818. In June, 1819, he sailed as missionary to Ceylon, where he estab lished a mission, laboring for seventeen years at daf(na and Oodoville, where he founded a seminary; he established the mission at Madras, 1836, and spent the rest of his life there, establishing a native college and a number of vernacular schools. He became president of the Madras College about 1840. He was the author of Sketch of the Missions (Andover, 1819); Memoir of Harriet Wadsworth Wins low, of the Ceylon Mission (New York, 1835; republished in London, France, and Turkey); Hints on Missions to India (1856); and A Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary, of High and Low Tamil (Madras, 1862). The Dictionary, his great work, on which he spent three hours a day for over twenty years, was based partly upon manuscript material-s_ left by Joseph Knight, and consisted of 68,000 words and definitions. He was assisted in this by native scholars. Winslow also translated the Bible into Tamil (Madras, 1855).

WINSLOW, WILLIAM COPLEY: Protestant Episcopalian; b. at Boston, .Mass., Jan. 13, 1840. He was graduated from Hamilton College (A.B., 1862) and the General Theological Seminary, New York City (1865). He was ordained to the priesthood in 1867; was rector of St. George's, Lee, Mass. (1867-70); chaplain of St. Luke's Home, Boston (1878-82), having temporary charge of various parishes, particularly at Weymouth, Mass., and Taunton, Mass., in the interim. In 1883 he established the Free Church Association in Boston, and likewise founded the American branch of the Egypt Exploration Fund (q.v.), of which he was the chief official until 1902, securing large funds for its use and being the pioneer in America in creating a popular interest in explorations in Egypt. He also took an active part in the establishment of the Greco-Roman branch of the Egypt Exploration Fund, and was one of the chief distributors of the antiquities thus discovered among the various American institutions which had contributed to the society's support. Theologically he describes himself as " of evangelical belief; thoroughly progressive in all forms of educational and religious work; a believer in all that is essential to faith in the Old Testament." In 1860-62 he was editor of The University Quarterly; in 1862-63, as-

8 * tant editor of The New York World, and in 1864-65

is of The Christian Times. He is the associate editor of The American Antiquarian and of The American Historical Register. He has of late done much to raise funds for the Egyptian Research Account (q.v.).