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giaduated from the Virginia Theological
Seminary, 1845 ; admitted to the diaconate,
July 12, 1845 '< advanced to the priesthood.
September 23, 1846, and was in charge of
Lexington parish, Amherst, Virginia, 1845-
47. He was married, December i, 1847, to
Margaret Jane, daughter of James and Eliz-
abeth Fisher, of Richmond, Virginia. He
was assistant at St. Paul's, Richmond, 1847-
48; rector of Christ Church, Winchester,
Virginia, 1848-60; of Christ Church, Alexan-
dria, 1860-61, and of Emmanuel Church,
Richmond, 1862-66. He was professor of
church history in the Virginia Theological
Seminary, 1866-76; professor of systematic
divinity and homiletics, 1876-98, and dean
ot the faculty, 1895-98, retiring in 1898. The
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was
conferred on him by the College of Wil-
liam and Mary in 1859. He is the author
of: "Biography of Rev. William Duval,
City Missionary of Richmond" (1854) ;
"Life and Correspondence of Rev. William
Sparrow" (1876) ; "Biography of Rev.
Charles W. Andrews" (1877); "Sorrowing,
not without Hope" (1887) ; "Outlines of
Theology" (1893) ' "Lectures on Christian
Ethics" (1896); a history of the Virginia
Theological Seminary, in preparation, 1903,
and many articles on ecclesiastical subjects.
Murdaugh, Claudius W., born at Ports- mouth, Virginia, December 28, 1828, son of James Murdaugh, of Nansemond county. Iswyer and legislator, and Mary Reddick, his wife, of Gates county. North Carolina. He was educated at William and Mary Col- lege and the University of Virginia, became a lawyer, and engaged in practice in Ports- mouth. He served in the legislature from 1855 till the civil war broke out. In 1861 he raised a company in Norfolk, of which he was made captain, and which became a
part of the Sixty-first Virginia Regiment.
He served until the end of the war, taking
part in all the battles around Richmond, at
Chancellorsville ; at Salem Church, where ne
was wounded ; and in others. After the war
he was commonwealth's attorney, and judge
of the hustings court, holding the latter
position six years. He married Eugenia,
daughter of John Dickson.
Sands, Alexander Hamilton, was l)orn in Williamsburg, Virginia, May 2, 1828, son of Thomas Sands, of York county. He studied at William and Mary in 1838-42, but was not graduated, read law, and in 1S43 became deput}- clerk of the state su- perior court. In 1845-49 he held the same office in the United States circuit court. He was a judge-advocate in the Confederate army during the civil war, and a short time before his death entered the Baptist minis- try, serving congregations in Ashland and Glen .\llcn, Virginia. Besides contribu- tions to periodicals, he published "History of a Suit in Equity" (Richmond, 1854J ; a new edition of Alexander Tate's "American Form-Book" (1857) ; "Recreations of a Southern Barrister" (Philadelphia, 1860) ; "Practical Law Forms" (1872) ; and "Ser- mons by a Village Pastor." He compiled "Hubbell's Legal Directory of Virginia Laws," and was the editor of the "Quarterly Law Review" and the "Evening Bulletin" (1859), both in Richmond. He died in Richmond, Virginia, December 22. 1887.
Wellford, Beverley Randolph, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 10, 1828, son of Dr. Beverley Randolph Wellford, profes- sor in the Medical College of Virginia, and Mary, his wife, daughter of William Alex- ander and Sarah Casson, his wife. He at- tended the Fredericksburg schools, and then
