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was laid there May 6, 1875. See Southey, Memoir of J.<(i(ic Watts, I). D.; Johnson, Life of Watts ; Jennings, Sermon on the Death of the Late Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. ; Gibbons, Memoirs of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. See IIymnoi.oc.y.
Watts, William, D.D., an English ecclesiastic, was born near Lynn, in Norfolk, about the close of the l()th century, and was ediu'atcd at Caius College, Cam- bridge, where he graduated in 1010. He afterwards travelled abroad, and became familiar with several for- eign languages. On his return, he became chaplain to king Ciiailes I, and liad the living of St. Alban's, Wood Street, London. Some time after this he became chap- lain under the earl of Arundel, general of the forces in the Scotch expedition in IGoSI, antl prebendary of Wells. About 1642 his living in London was sequestered, on account of his adherence to the crown, and his family made homeless. lie was compelled to fly, and was made chaiilain to prince Rupert. He died at Kinsale, Ireland, in 1G49. Among his published works are, a Translation, vith Notes, etc., of Anf/nstine's Confessions (1631): — Advice concerning the Philosophi/ of Foreif/n Discovert/. He also had a principal hand in Spelman's (ilossari), and published a fine edition of Matthew Paris (Lond. 1640). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.
Waugli, Alexander, D.D., a Scotch Presbyterian divine, was born at Last Gordon, in Berwickshire, Aug. 16, 17.')4. He was educated in the grammar-school at Earlston and the universities of Edinburgh and Aber- deen, besides having studied theology two years (1774- 76) under the Kev. John Brown, at Haddington. He was licensed to preach June 28, 1779, and supplied the ])idpit at Well Street. London, for a short time. In 1780 lie was settled as pastor at Newtown, in the parish of iNfelrose, Roxburghshire, and remained two years. In 1782 he became pastor in Oxford Street, London, where he continued to tlie tiine of his death, Dec. 14, 1827. He was one of the fathers of the London Missionary Society, and was very active in its support. See Jones, Christian Bio;/, s. v.
Waugh, Beverly, D.D., a bishop of the Method- ist Episcopal Ciiurcb.was born in Fairfax County, Va., Oct. 25, 1789. His father, Capt. James Waugh, was a substantial farmer, and headed a companj' of militia at the time lord Cornwallis invaded Virginia. Mr. Waugh's youthful days were guarded by pious parents, who screened him from the common follies of early life, and gave him the best education the country could af- fsrd. At the age of lifte,en he embraced religion, and maintained his rep\itation as a consistent Christian through life. His Christian zeal attracted the atten- tion of a pious merchant, who, finding Mr. Waugh well qualified in figures and penmanship, engaged him as clerk, and after a thoniugh trial gave him full manage- ment of a store in ^fiildleburgh, forty miles from Alex- andria, the home of liis empldvor. Thus was laid the foundation of his well-devel(>))ed business habits in after- life. While in his mercantile life, he began exercising his gift as an cxhorter, und'er the conviction that to de- cline lalxiring for the salvation of souls wouhl bring a great peril upon his soul and frustrate his religious en- joyment. Prompted by sucli a motive, he qintted busi- ness in 1800, and, entering the Baltimore Conference, was appointed helper on the Stafllbrd and Fredericks- burg Circuit, Va. In 1810 he travelled the Greenbrier Circuit; and in 1811 was admitted into full connection, and stationed at Ebenezer, Washington city, the only Methodist Church then in the national metropolis. On April 12, 1812, he was married to Miss Catherine B. Busby, of Wasliington city. The following eighteen years of his itinerant career were marked with all the peculiar lights and shades, joys and sorrows, of a IVIoth- odist preacher's life. In 1828 Mr. Waugh was elected assistant book-agent, and in 1832 principal book-agent, in the Methodist liook Concern in New York city. In 1836 he was constituted bishop. His views respecting
the new office, as recorded in his private journal at the time, exhibit his characteristic strong sense of duty ami his habitual diffidence and self-distrust. He says, "Much as I felt my utter inadequacy to the important work, I feared to take myself out of the haiuis of my bretliren. I could not, therefore, see my wav clear to do anything else than to throw myself and my all into the arms of Christ, and by his grace attempt the per- formance of the work to which God, by his Church, ap- peared plainly to call me." To follow bishop Waugh on his regular episcopal tours for twenty-two consecu- tive years, and review his travels and labors, would not be suitable in tliis brief sketch. Suffice it to .'-ay, in whatever locality his office demanded his presence dur- ing those twenty-two years he was never absent, and was so tenacious of jierforming his whole duty that, sick or well, he seldom called for a moment's relief. In considering bishop Waugh's character, there is much to impress and interest. His personal appearance Avas very striking. He was sedate and grave, but not sad: cheerful, but not trifling; proverbially neat; and his strength and meekness were happily blended. Chris- tianitj' pervaded and einiobled him. About two weeks before his death, the bishop went to Carlisle, Pa., to as- sist a brother minister in an interesting revival, where he labored with his usual zeal and success. He died suddenly at his hoine in Baltimore, of erysipelas, fol- lowed by an affection of the heart, Feb. 9, 1858. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1858, p. i-iv, 6-8; Simp- son, Cyclop, of Methodism, s. v. ; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, vol. vii.