Born: 1805, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: Au­gust 22, 1893.

Son of a Roy­al Na­vy cap­tain, Cham­bers at­tend­ed Or­i­el Coll­ege, Ox­ford, grad­u­at­ing with hon­ors in 1827 (MA 1831). He was called to the Bar by the In­ner Tem­ple in 1831. In 1842, he pub­lished an elab­or­ate trea­tise on the jur­is­dic­tion of the Court of Chan­ce­ry over the per­sons and prop­er­ty of in­fants, and was ap­point­ed Re­cord­er of New Sar­um the same year. At Sal­is­bu­ry, he be­came in­ter­est­ed in li­tur­gi­cal and other ec­cles­i­as­ti­cal lore per­tain­ing to the ca­thed­ral, and to St. Os­mund, its bi­shop in 1078. His works in­clude:

• A Complete Dic­tion­a­ry of the Law and Prac­tice of the Elect­ion of a Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, 1837
• A Practical Trea­tise on the Jur­is­dict­ion of the High Court of Chan­cery, 1842
• A Review of the Gor­ham Case, 1850
• The Psalter, or Seven Or­din­a­ry Hours of Sar­um, with the Hymns for the Year, and the Var­i­a­tions of the York and Her­e­ford Bre­vi­ar­ies (Lon­don: 1852)
• An Order of House­hold De­vo­tion for a Week, with Var­i­a­tions for the Sea­sons and Fes­tiv­als, from the An­cient Eng­lish of Sar­um Use (Lon­don: 1854)
• A Companion for Ho­ly Com­mun­ion for Cler­gy or La­i­ty; with a Pre­fa­to­ry Of­fice for Con­fess­ion, from the An­cient Eng­lish Of­fic­es of Sar­um Use, 3rd edi­tion, 1855
• Lauda Syon, An­cient La­tin Hymns of the Eng­lish and Other Church­es (part 1, 1857; part 2, 1866)
• The Encheiridion; of Book of Dai­ly De­vo­tion of the An­cient Eng­lish Church according to Sarum Use (Lon­don: 1860)
• A Complete & Particular, Yet Concise Account of the Mode of Con­duct­ing Di­vine Wors­hip in Eng­land in the 13th and 14th Cen­tu­ries, Con­trast­ed with and Adapt­ed to That in Use at the Pre­sent Time (Lon­don: 1877)
• A trans­la­tion from the orig­in­al Greek of Her­mes Tris­me­gis­tus, the Christ­ian Ne­o­pla­to­nist (A.D. 60)

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Translations

1. Maker of Man, Who from Thy Throne