DEATH OF AN EMINENT THEOLOGIAN.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1900, Page 6

DEATH OF AN EMINENT THEOLOGIAN.

_ « THE REV. DR. MARTINEAU. [press association.] LONDON, 14th January. The death is announced of the Rev. James Martineau, D.D., the well-known religious writer, in his ninety-fifth year. [Dr. Martineau was a younger brother of the late Harriet Martineau, and was born at Norwich, 21st April, 1805. He was educated at the grammar school of his native city, and under Dr. Lant Carpenter at Bristol, and had already been a Unitarian minister at Dublin and Liverpool when in 1841 he was appointed Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Manchester New College. He removed to "London when, that institution was transferred thither in 1857, becoming also one of the pastors in Little Port-land-street Chape 1 .. He became Principal of the College in 1863, and held the office until his retirement in 1885. Martineau was recognised for fifty j r ears as one of the profoundest thinkers and most effective writers of his day. Earnest and lofty in his aims, and catholic in his sympathies, he unites strong grasp of thought and power of subtle analysis to a rare mastery of English style. Indeed in the power of elucidating the most abstract thought ho has seldom been surpassed, and he is no less learned than original. Martineau received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1872, Doctor in Theology from Leyden in 1875, and D.D. from ' Edinburgh in 1884. He was one of the founders of the National Review (1855-64), and was a frequent contributor to its pages.]