John Ramsay Mcculloch

John Ramsay Mcculloch, a Scottish economist, born at Whithorn in Wigtownshire, March 1, 1789, died at the stationery office, Westminster, Nov. 11, 1864. From 1828 to 1832 he was professor of political economy in the university of London. He afterward received from government for his services to literature a pension of £200, and the comptrol-lership of the stationery office. He published "Principles of Political Economy;" "Treatise on the Principles and Practical Influence of Taxation and the Funding System;" "Statistical Account of the British Empire;" " Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation;" and "Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World."

John Robert Seeley

John Robert Seeley, an English author, born in London about 1834. He is the son of a London publisher. He graduated at Christ Church, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1858, was for several years principal classical assistant at the city of London school, was appointed in 1863 professor of Latin in University college, London, and in 1869 was made professor of modern history at Cambridge. In 1865 he published anonymously "Ecce Homo: The Life and Work of Jesus Christ." He has also published "Classical Studies, as an" Introduction to the Moral Sciences," a lecture (1864); "An English Primer, or Course of English Instruction for Schools," with E. A. Abbott (London, 1869; republished in Boston under the title "English Lessons for English People"); "Roman Imperialism" (Boston, 1869); "Lectures and Essays" (1870); and an edition of Livy.

John Rogers Herbert

John Rogers Herbert, an English painter, born in Maldon, Essex, Jan. 23, 1810. He be-came a student in the royal academy while a boy, and before the age of 24 had acquired considerable reputation. About 1839 he became a convert to the Roman Catholic church. He was employed on the decoration of the new houses of parliament, and among his frescoes there are nine subjects taken from the Old Testament in illustration of justice on earth and its development in law and judgment. Since the death of his son in 1856, a young painter of great promise, his subjects have been almost entirely religious. He was elected associate of the royal academy in 1841 and academician in 1846.

John Rushworth

John Rushworth, an English compiler, born in Northumberland about 1607, died in London, May 12, 1690. He studied at Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar, but never practised. From 1630 he took notes of all important proceedings in the higher courts and in parliament. He was assistant clerk and messenger of the house in the long parliament, from 1645 to 1650 assistant secretary to Lord Fairfax, and afterward for many years a member of parliament. From 1684 till his death he was in prison for debt. The first part (1 vol. fol.) of his "Historical Collection of private Passages of State, weighty Matters in Law, and remarkable Proceedings in Parliament," covering the proceedings from 1618 to 1629, appeared in 1659; the second part, from 1629 to 1640, and the "Trial of the Earl of Strafford," in 1680; and the other parts were ready for the press at his death. The whole work was reprinted in 1721, in 7 vols.