Joseph Barber Lightfoot was born at Liverpool in 1828, and received his education at King Edward's School, Birmingham, under the Rev. James Prince Lee, afterwards first Bishop of Manchester. From Birmingham he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a scholarship in 1849, and graduated B.A. in 1851, as Senior Classic, Chancellor's Medallist, and a Wrangler. In 1853 he was Norrisian University Prizeman, and he proceeded M.A. in the next year, having been previously (in 1852) elected to a fellowship in his college. In 1854 he was ordained Deacon by the late Bishop of Manchester, by whom he was admitted to Priest's Orders in 1858. Dr. Lightfoot was appointed Tutor of Trinity College in 1857; Hulsean Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge in 1861; Chaplain to the late Prince Consort in 1861; Honorary Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty in 1862; Examining Chaplain to Dr. Tait, Bishop of London, in 1862; D.D. in 1864; Whitehall Preacher in 1866; Examining Chaplain to Dr. Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1868; Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's in 1871; Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1872; one of the Deputy Clerks of the Closet to Her Majesty in 1875; and Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1875. He was a member of the Committee for the Revision of the English Version of the New Testament. He is also a member of the Cambridge University Commission; and has been Select Preacher at Oxford and at Cambridge. In January, 1879, Dr. Lightfoot was nominated by the Crown, on the recommendation of the Earl of Beaconsfield, to fill the see of Durham, which had become vacant by the resignation of the Right Rev. Charles Baring,