Arnold, THOMAS KERCHEVER

Arnold, THOMAS KERCHEVER, was born at Stamford in 1800, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1821. In 1830 he became rector of Lyndon, in Rutlandshire, and there he died on the 9th of March 1853. In 1838 he published his Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition, of which, in 1849, when it reached a seventh edition, more than 20,000 copies had been sold. Next year appeared his Latin Prose Composition. These works are still largely used, and new editions of both appeared in 1881. He also published, with the Rev. J. E. Riddle, an English-Latin Lexicon (1847); edited twenty-five volumes of classics; and produced English, French, Italian, German, and Hebrew grammars. All these works show his obligation to continental, especially German, scholars. As a theologian, he published several volumes of sermons, and some controversial treatises.