Colenso
JOHN WILLIAM, an English clergyman; born in Cornwall, Jan. 24, 1814. In 1846 he was appointed reclish clergyman; born in Cornwall, Jan. 24, 1814. In 1846 he was appointed rec- 24, 1861 his "Translation of the Epistle to of Norfolk, and 1854 first Bishop of Natal, South Africa. In the next year appeared his "Ten Weeks in Natal"; in to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterthe Romans Commented on from a Misbury upon the Question of the Proper sionary Point of View"; and "A Letter Treatment of Cases of Polygamy, as Found Already Existing in Converts from Heathenism." The outcry raised Found Already Existing in Converts by his professional brethren against the "Letter" was sufficiently loud, but it was nothing to the tempest of disapproba- COLEOPTERA tion that burst forth in the following year (1862), when he published "The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined." The Bishop of Cape Town, the metropolitan Bishop, declared Colenso deposed from his see; but on an appeal to the Privy Council, in 1865, the deposition was pronounced null and void.
Colenso wrote treatises on mathematics used as text-books. He died in Durban, Natal, June 20, 1883.