WILLIAM (1825-1901).-Historian, _s._ of a solicitor, _b._ at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and _ed._ there and at the Grammar School of Ripon, and Oxf. In 1848 he became a Fellow of Trinity Coll., and in the same year took orders and was appointed to the coll. living of Navestock in Essex, where he remained for 16 years, during which he began his