William Greenough Thayer Shedd, an American clergyman, born in Acton, Mass., June 21, 1820. He graduated at the university of Vermont in 1839, and at Andover theological seminary in 1843, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Brandon, Vt., in 1844. In 1845 he became professor of English literature in the university of Vermont, in 1852 of homiletics in Auburn theological seminary, and in 1854 of church history in the Andover theological seminary. In 1862 he was installed as associate pastor of the Brick church (Presbyterian) in New York, resigned in 1863, and became professor of Biblical literature in the Union theological seminary, and in 1874 of doctrinal theology. He has published "Outlines of a System of Rhetoric," from the German of F. Theremin (12mo, New York, 1850); "Lectures upon the Philosophy of History" (Andover, 1856); "Discourses and Essays" (Andover, 1856); "A Manual of Church History," from the German of H. E. F. Guericke (8vo, Andover and Edinburgh, 1857); "A History of the Christian Doctrine" (2 vols., New York, 1863); "Homiletics and Pastoral Theology" (1867); and "Sermons to the Natural Man" (1871). Prof. Shedd has also edited the works of Coleridge (7 vols. 12mo, New York, 1853), "The Confessions of Augustine," with an introductory essay (Andover, 1860), and the Gospel of Mark in vol. ii. of the translation of Lange's commentary; and has contributed an introduction to Asbury's translation of Ackermann's work on the Christian element in Plato, and to the American edition of McCosh's "Intuitions of the Mind".