ELLICOTT, CHARLES JOHN ), bishop of Gloucester, was born on April 25, 1819, at Whitwell, near Stam ford, and educated at Oakham, Stamford, and St. John's college, Cambridge. He was elected a fellow of St. John's in 1845, but his fellowship lapsed on his marriage in 1848. After ten years in the living of Pilton, Rutlandshire, he became professor of New Testament exegesis at King's college, London. In 1859 he was Hulsean lecturer, and in 1860 professor, at Cambridge. In 1861 he was made dean of Exeter, and organized a diocesan training college there, and in 1863 was made bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. During the 42 years of his episcopate he helped to estab lish the Gloucester Theological college, and the Church Aid Society in Bristol (1867). He was secretary to the Lambeth conferences of 1867, 1878 and 1888, and registrar in 1898. He took an important part in the work of the royal commission on ritual and the rubrics (1867) . In 1897, when the sees of Gloucester and Bristol were divided, Ellicott remained bishop of Gloucester, resigning on March 25, 1905. He died on Oct. 15, 1905.
His publications include: Historical Lectures on the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ (186o, 6th ed. 1876) ; Addresses on the Revised Ver sion (19o1) ; Christus Comprobatur (1891) ; he also edited, with the collaboration of Plumptre, Sanday and others, A New Testament Com mentary for English Readers (3 vols. 1878-79, end ed. 2 vols. 1892 96), An Old Testament Commentary (5 vols., 1882-84 and 1884-92), and The Complete Bible Commentary for English Readers (7 vols. 1897, new ed. 1905) .