CHEYNE, THOMAS KELLY (1841-1915), English bib lical scholar, was born in London on Sept. 18, 1841. Educated at Merchant Taylor's school and Worcester college, Oxford, he spent some time at Gottingen, where he heard Ewald lecture, and ac quired an outlook on questions of biblical criticism then quite new in England. He made English readers familiar with the re sults of German biblical research, and laid the foundation of a new school of criticism in England. This was accomplished partly by his lectures, partly by a series of articles contributed to the 9th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and to the Academy, where he was in charge of the biblical department, and by a series of independent works. After taking orders in 1864 he became vice-principal of St. Edmund hall, fellow of Balliol (1868-82), rector of Tendring, Essex (188o-85), Oriel professor of the inter pretation of scripture at Oxford and canon of Rochester (1885 1908). He was appointed one of the board on the revision of the Old Testament (1884), and in that capacity acted with A. H. Sayce, William Robertson Smith and others. In his later years he adopted an extreme attitude, and alienated many scholars who had hitherto been in sympathy with him. He died at Oxford on Feb. 16, 1915. Among his more important works may be men tioned : The Prophecies of Isaiah (188o-81) ; The Origin and Contents of the Psalter (1891) ; Jewish Life After the Exile (1898) ; The Reconciliation of Races and Religions (1914) .