RICHARD WILLIAM (1815-1890).-Divine, historian, and biographer, was _b._ at Lisbon, and _ed._ at Oxf., where he became a friend of J.H. Newman (_q.v._). He took orders, and became Rector of Whatley, Somerset, and in 1871 Dean of St. Paul's. He was a leading member of the High Church party, but was held in reverence by many who did not symp