Frederick William Robertson, an English clergyman, born in London, Feb. 3, 1816, died in Brighton, Aug. 15, 1853. His early inclinations were toward military life, but he entered Brasenose college, Oxford, where he graduated in 1840, and the same year took orders. He was curate successively at Winchester, Cheltenham, and Oxford; and in 1847 he became minister of Trinity chapel, Brighton, where his eloquence and originality always attracted a crowded and intellectual audience. He organized a working men's institute, before which he delivered several lectures. The violent denunciations of some of his religious opinions, acting on a naturally feeble constitution, hastened his death. He was the author of "Lectures on the Influence of Poetry on the Working Classes" (London, 1852; republished with additions under the title "Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics," 1858; new ed., 1861); "Sermons preached at Trinity Chapel" (four series, 1855-'63; new ed., with a memoir, 2 vols., Boston, 1870); and "Expository Lectures on St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians" (London, 1859). His "Life and Letters" have been edited by Stopford A. Brooke (2 vols., 1865).