Samuel Hart (1845–1917) was an American

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man, classicist, and liturgical scholar.

Biography

Samuel Hart was born at Old Saybrook, Connecticut on June 4, 1845. He graduated from

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in 1866, after 1868 taught at that institution, and was made

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in 1883. He had been ordained priest in 1870, and in 1893 he was elected

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, but declined the office. In 1886, he became custodian of the '' Standard Prayer-Book'' of his church, and in 1892 secretary of the House of Bishops. In 1899 he became vice dean and professor of doctrinal theology and the Prayer-Book, and in 1908 dean, at the

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, then in Middletown, Connecticut. He was elected president of the American Philological Association in 1891. He died in

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on February 25, 1917.

Publications

He published editions of

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(1873) and

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(1875); edited Bishop Seabury's ''Communion Office'' (1874) and ''Historical Sermons of Bishop Seabury'' (1883–1886); and wrote on ''The Book of Common Prayer'' (1910) and ''Faith and the Faith'' (the Bohlen lectures, 1914).

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* * American philologists American religious writers People from Deep River, Connecticut 1845 births 1917 deaths American Episcopal priests Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni Anglican liturgists 19th-century American Episcopalians {{US-reli-bio-stub