Norton

Norton, ANDREWS, American theologian, was born at Hingham, Massachusetts, December 31, 1786, graduated at Harvard in 1804, was appointed mathematical tutor there in 1811, and in 1813 librarian of the university and lecturer on biblical criticism and interpretation. In 1819-30 he was Dexter professor of Sacred Literature. Norton was among the most distinguished exponents of Unitarianism, equally determined in his protest against Calvinism and in his opposition to the school of Theodore Parker and the naturalistic theology. His chief writings are Reasons for not believing the Doctrines of Trinitarians (1833), and two works on The Genuineness of the Gospels. He died at Newport, Rhode Island, September 18, 1853, leaving also a translation of the gospels, which was edited (1855) by Dr Ezra Abbot and his son, CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, who was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 16th November 1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1846. He travelled in India and Europe in 1849-51, and again in Europe in 1855-57 and 1868-73, and in 1864-68 was joint editor with Lowell of the North American Review. He has published a number of works relating to Italy, and edited Carlyle's letters (see bibliography at CARLYLE).