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a Unitarian minister, nephew of William Ellery, was born in Boston, May 25, 1810. He graduated from Harvard University in 1829, and the divinity school in 1833; became pastor at Cincinnati in 1839; at Boston in 1847; afterwards at Rochester and New York. During a visit to England in 1854 he was much admired as a preacher, and in 1857 was established as the successor of Reverend James Martineau, of Hope Street Chapel, Liverpool. In 1862 he returned to America, and became pastor in Washington, D.C., and served as chaplain of the House for two years. After the war his life was chiefly spent in England, and he died in London, December 23, 1889. He edited his uncle's Life and Correspondence (1848): — also published a translation of Jouffroy's Ethics: — A Memoir of James H. Perkins: — and was chief editor of the Memoirs of Margaret Fuller d'Ossoli. See his Life, by O.B. Frothingham (1886).