Thomas Winthrop Coit, an American clergyman, born in New London, Conn., June 28, 1803. He graduated at Yale college in 1821, entered the ministry of the Episcopal church, and became rector of St. Peter's church, Salem, Mass., in 1827, and two years later rector of Christ's church, Cambridge. In 1834 he was elected president of Transylvania university, Lexington, Ky. This office he resigned in 1839, and became rector of Trinity church, New Rochelle, N. Y., which position he held for about ten years. In 1854 he was elected professor of ecclesiastical history in Berkeley divinity school, Middletown, Conn., the duties of which post he discharged in connection with the rectorship of St. Paul's church, Troy, N. Y. He resigned the rectorship in 1872, and has been since chiefly occupied in the duties of his professorship. Dr. Coit ranks among the foremost of living scholars in the Episcopal church, and is the author of several able works in defence of its doctrines and position. Besides a large number of occasional addresses and sermons, and contributions to the "Church Review," he has published "A Theological Commonplace Book;" "The Bible and Apocrypha in Paragraphs and Parallelisms" (2 vols., 1834); "Remarks on Mr. Norton's Statement of Reasons" (1834); "Townsend's Chronological Bible" (2 vols., 1837);."Puritanism, a Churchman's Defence against its Aspersions" (1844); "Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England" (1859); and a report on the "Standard Prayer Book" (1868).