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Winslow, William Copley

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 13, 1840, in Boston, Mass. In 1862 he graduated from Hamilton college, and three years later from the Protestant Episcopal General Theological seminary of New York city. He has since been engaged in preaching, lecturing, and writing for the press; was assistant editor of the New York World in 1862- 63, and of the Christian Union in 1864. Since 1870 he has resided in Boston, and through his efforts the Boston Museum of Fine Arts received a colossal statue of Rameses II. He is the vice-president for the United States of the Egypt exploration fund; is its honorary secretary; and is regarded as an authority on biblical and particularly Egyptological explorations. He is the author of Israel in Egypt; The Store City of Pithom; A Greek City in Egypt; and The Pilgrim Fathers in Holland.