KITTO, John, English Bible student: b.' Plymouth, England, 4 Dec. 1804; d. Cannstadt, near Stuttgart, Germany, 25 Nov. 1854. He was the son of a mason at Plymouth, and after obtaining a very scanty education began to assist his father, but met with a fall which deprived him of the sense of hearing. Sent to the workhouse he was presently apprenticed to a shoemaker, who used him so cruelly that the magistrates canceled his indentures. He there fore returned to the workhouse, where some philanthropic gentlemen became interested in him, made provision for his support and pro cured for him permission to read in the pub lic library. In 1824 he became the pupil of Mr. Groves, a dentist of Exeter, who supported him and gave him a small salary for his serv ices. In 1825 he was sent to the Missionary College at Islington for the purpose of receiv ing training as printer for the foreign press of the Church Missionary Society. Shortly afterward he was sent abroad by the society, but returned two years later. In 1829 Mr. Groves organized a private missionary party which set sail for the Persian court, where from 1829-33 Kitto acquired that familiar ac quaintance with the East which he afterward employed in his writing. He had opened a
school for Armenians at Bagdad, which he was forced to abandon because of the ravages of disease and floods in the neighborhood. He founded and edited the Journal of Sacred Lit-' erature (1848-53), and although a layman of the English Church received in 1844 the degtee of D.D. frOm Giessen. He published'•
Pictorial Bible' (1835-38) • 'Pictorial History of Palestine) (1841); 'Gallery of Scripture Engravings' (1841-43) ' • 'Cyclopasdia of Bibli cal Literature' (edited 1843-45); 'The Lost Senses: Deafness and Blindness> (1845);