"Wheelock. John, D.D., LL.D., an American cler- gyman, was born at Lebanon, Conn., Jan. 28, 1754. He entered Yale College in 1767, but removed with his father Dr. Eleazer Wheelock, to Hanover, N. IL, in 1770, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1771 ; was tutor there from 1772 to 1776; was elected to the Colonial As- sembly in 1775 ; appointed major in the New York forces in 1777, and soon after lieutenant-colonel in the Conti- nental army ; commanded an expedition against the Indians in 1778, and soon after was placed on general Gates's staff. At the death of his father in 1779, al- though only twenty-five years of age, he was chosen his successor as president of Dartmouth College ; was sent to lingland to raise money and supplies for the college in 1783, but lost what he had collected by shipwreck oif Cape Cod; was removed from his office in conse- quence of an ecclesiastical controversy in 1815, but re- stored in 1817, and died soon after, April 4, 1817. He left half of his large estate to Princeton Theological Seminary. He published a Eulogy on Prof. John Smith, D.D. (1809) :— and Sketches of Dartmouth College (1816).
"Whelan, Riciiakd Vincent, D.D., a Koman Cath- olic prelate, was born in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 29, 1809. He was educated at Mount St. !Mary's College, Em- mettsburg, where he became a teacher and prefect of studies; studied theology and philosophy at the Semi- nary of St. Sulpice, Paris, graduating in 1831 ; was or- dained priest at Versailles the same year; was professor in St. Mar3''s College from 1832 to 1835 ; was a mission- ary in several parts of Virginia and Maryland from 1835 to 1840; became bishop of Richmond in INIarch, 1850, and on the division of the diocese the following year took the title of bishop of Wheeling, where he was ac- tive in promoting the interests of Romanism, building up a seminary for young ladies, and a convent at IMount de Chautal; was a member of the Vatican Council of 1869-70, in which he opposed the dogma of infallibility,
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but gave in his adhesion to it after it was declared. He died at Wheeling, July 7, 1874.
"Wheler, George, D.D. See Wheeler, Sir George.
"Whelp ("lis, 5'o/-, or ^^5,,ffui-), the cub of a lion (den. xlix, 9; Dent, xxxiii, '22; Jer. li, 38; Ezek. xix. 2, 3, 5; Nah. ii, 13), or of a jackal (Lam. iv, 3). See Liox. The cubs of a bear (2 Sam. xvii, 8 ; Prov. xvii, 12; Hos. xiii, 8) are not designated by the Ileb. word. See Bear.
Whewell, William, U.D., a clergyman and pro- fessor of the Church of England, was born at Lancaster, England, in 1795. He graduated from Trinity College in 181G, and received the degree of D.D. ; was or- dained deacon in 1820, and priest in the following year; became master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1841, and was vice-chancellor of the university. Pre- vious to this he was fellow and tutor of Trinity College, and from 1828 to 1832 was professor of mineralogy in the university ; from 1838 to 1855 he was professor of moral theology. Dr. Whewell died at Cambridge, March G, 18G6. As an author he was prolific ; among his works being, A71 Elementary Treatise on Mechanics (1819) — which passed through seven editions: — Analyt- ical Statics (1826): — Architectural Notes on German Churches (1830): — Principles of University Education (1831) -.—First Principles of Mechanics (iSm):— Doc- trine of Limits (eod.) •.— Treatise of Dynamics (1832-36) : — Astronomy and General Physics (1834): — Mechanical Euclid (1837): — History of the Inductive Sciences (eod. 3 vols.) : — Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840, 3 vols.) : — The Mechanics of Engineeriny (1841) : — Liberal Education (1845): — Verse Translations from the Ger- man (1847) : — Lectures on the History of Moral Philos- ophy (1852) : — Systematic Morality (1846): — Elements of Morality (1848). He was also editor of an edition of Newton's Principia, first three sections (184G) ; of Butler's Human Nature (1843); of Butler's Moral Sub- jects (1849); and of various other scientific works. He was also the author of various scientific articles in lead- ing periodicals, and published many pamphlets and nu- merous sermons. See A mer. Quar. Church Review, July, 18G6, p. 325.
Whichcote, Bexjamin, D.D., an eminent English divine, was born at Whichcote Hall, in the parish of Stoke, in Shropshire, March 11, 1610. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1629; became a fellow there in 1633; was a distin- guished tutor; was ordained in 1636; organized a Sun- day-afternoon lectureship at Trinity Church, and be- came preacher to the university; was presented to the living of North Cadbury, in Somersetshire, in 1643; ap- pointed provost of King's College in 1644; presented to the rectory of Milton, in Cambridgeshire, in 1649; was removed from his provostship at the Restoration in 1661, but retained his rectory at Milton ; obtained the living of St. Anne's, Blackfriars, London, in 1662 ; and the vicarage of St. Lawrence's, Jewry, in 1668. He died while on a visit at Cambridge, in May, 1683. "Dr. Whichcote is regarded as one of the heads, if not the chief foimder, of what is called the latitudinarian school of English divines." He enjoyed great fame as a preacher, and left considerable results of his literary la- bors, although he published nothing during his lifetime. His Observations and Apothegms (1G88), and his Sermons (1698), were edited by the earl of Shaftesbury. Dr. John Jeffcry edited his Moral ami Religious Aphorisms (1703),and his Discourses (1701-3,3 vols.), to which Dr. Samuel Clarke added a fourth in 1707. An edition of his Sermons, in 4 vols., accompanied by a Life by Drs. Campbell and Gerard, appeared in 1751,