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Martineau (JAMES an English clergyman)

JAMES, an English clergyman and writer, brother of Harriet Martineau; born in Norwich, England, April 21, 1805. He was educated at the Norwich Grammar School. Dr. Lant Car- , Dr. Lant Carpenter's school at Bristol, and Manchester New College, York. He became in 1841 Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in Manchester New College .

In 1857 he removed to London, and was minister of Little Portland Street Chapel from 1859 to 1872. In 1868 he was appointed principal of Manchester New College (which from 1853 had been in London). He was author of "The Rationale of Religious Inquiry" (1837 ); "Miscellanies" (1852); "Studies of Christianity" (1858) "Essays Philosophical and Theological" (1868); "Modern Materialism " (1876); "A Study of Spinoza" (1882); "A Study of Religion" (2 vols. 1887), and many other works on kindred topics. He died in London, Jan. 11, 1900.