unjustly deprived by the classical school.  His ed. of Milton’s minor poems has been pronounced by competent critics to be the best ever produced.  W. was a clergyman, but if the tradition is to be believed that he had only two sermons, one written by his f. and the other printed, and if the love of ease and of ale which he celebrates in some of his verses was other than poetical, he was more in his place as a critic than as a cleric.  As a poet he hardly came up to his own standards.  He was made Poet Laureate in 1785, and in the same year Camden Prof. of History, and was one of the first to detect the Chatterton forgeries, a task in which his antiquarian lore stood him in good stead.

WATERLAND, DANIEL (1683-1740).—­Theologian, b. at Waseley Rectory, Lincolnshire, and ed. at Camb., took orders, and obtained various preferments, becoming Master of Magdalene Coll., Camb. 1713, Chancellor of York 1722, and Archdeacon of Middlesex 1730.  He was an acute and able controversialist on behalf of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity, on which he wrote several treatises.  He was also the author of a History of the Athanasian Creed (1723).

WATERTON, CHARLES (1782-1865).—­Naturalist, belonged to an old Roman Catholic family in Yorkshire, and was ed. at Stonyhurst Coll.  Sent out in 1804 to look after some family estates in Demerara, he wandered through the wildest parts of Guiana and Brazil, in search of plants and animals for his collections.  His adventures were related in his highly-spiced and entertaining Wanderings in South America, etc. (1825), in which he details certain surprising episodes in connection with the capture of serpents, and specially of a cayman, on the back of which he rode.  He also wrote an interesting account of his family.

WATSON, JOHN (1850-1907) “IAN MACLAREN".—­Novelist and theological writer, b. at Manningtree, where his f. was an Inland Revenue official, ed. at Stirling and Edin., and the New Coll. there.  He came, after serving in a country charge, to Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, where he was a popular preacher, and took a prominent part in the social and religious life of the city.  He wrote, under the name of “Ian Maclaren,” several novels belonging to the “Kailyard” school, including Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush and The Days of Auld Lang Syne, which had great popularity both at home and in America.  He also wrote religious works, of which The Mind of the Master is the best known.

WATSON, ROBERT (1730-1781).—­Historian, s. of an apothecary in St. Andrews, where and at Edin. and Glasgow, he was ed. He became Prof. of Logic, and afterwards Principal of St. Salvador’s Coll., at St. Andrews, and wrote a History of Philip II. of Spain, and part of a continuation on Philip III., which were long standard works.

WATSON, THOMAS (1557?-1592).—­Poet, b. in London, was at Oxf., and studied law.  He was a scholar, and made translations, one of which was a Latin version of the Antigone of Sophocles.  In 1582 he pub. Hecatompathia, or The Passionate Centurie of Love, consisting of 100 eighteen-line poems, which he called sonnets.  It was followed by Amyntas (1585) and Teares of Fansie (1593).