CHRISTIE, RICHARD COPLEY English scholar and bibliophile, was born on July 22, 1830, at Lenton, Nottinghamshire, the son of a millowner. He was educated at Lincoln college, Oxford, was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 18S7, and in 1872 became chancellor of the diocese of Manches ter. This he resigned in 1893. He held numerous appointments, notably the professorships of history (from 1854 to 1856) and of political economy (from 18J5 to 1866) at Owens college, Man chester. He always took an active interest in this college, of which he was one of the governors; in 1893 he gave the Christie library building designed by Alfred Waterhouse, and in 1897 he devoted £5o,000 of the funds at his disposal as a trustee of Sir Joseph Whitworth's estate for the building of Whitworth Hall, which completed the front quadrangle of the college. He was an enthusiastic book collector, and bequeathed to Owens college his library of about 75,000 vols., rich in a very complete set of books printed by Dolet, a wonderful series of Aldines, and of vols. printed by Sebastian Gryphius. His Etienne Dolet, the Martyr of the Renaissance (188o), is the most exhaustive work on the subject. He died at Ribsden on Jan. 9, 19o1.