Garnett
RICHARD, an English philologist; born in Otley, Yorkshire, England, July 25, 1789. He had already tried commerce and the Church, when in 1838 he was appointed assistant keeper of printed books at the British Museum.
One of the founders of the Philological Society, he contributed many striking papers (on Celtic subjects, largely) to its "Proceedings" and to the "Quarterly Review." These were collected by his son in "Philological Essays" (1859). He died Sept. 27, 1850. RICHARD, his son, born in Lichfield, Feb. 27, 1835, was appointed in 1851 assistant in the printed book department of the British Museum, where also he became superintendent of the reading room in 1875. This office he resigned in 1884 to devote himself more exclusively to the printing of the "Museum Catalogue," of which he had had charge from its commencement. He published: "Relics of Shelley" (1862); "Selections of Shelley's Poems" (1880) and "Letters" (1882); "De Quincey's English Opium Eater" (1885); "Life of Carlyle" (1887); "Life of Milton" (1890); "Poems" (1893); "History of Italian Literature" (1898); "Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography" (1899); "Essays of an Ex-Librarian" (1901) "English Literature" with Edmund Gosse (1903- 1904). He died in 1906. ing or legal notice to the agent or attor-