TYLER, William Seymour, clergyman, born in Hartford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 2 September, 1810. Job, his ancestor, was an early settler of Andover, Massachusetts. After graduation at Amherst in 1830, William was tutor there until 1834, and studied in Andover theological seminary. He was licensed to preach in 1836, and from that date until 1847 was professor of Latin and Greek at Amherst, but since 1847 he has been professor of Greek only. On 6 October. 1859, he was ordained without charge by a Congregational council at Amherst, and, although he was never a pastor, he has frequently preached in turn with the other professors of the college, and often as a supply for churches. He has twice visited Europe and the East. Harvard gave him the degree of D. D. in 1857, and Amherst that of LL.D. in 1871. He is the author of " Germania and Agricola of Tacitus with Notes for Colleges " (New York, 1847" enlarged eds., 1852 and 1878) ; "Histories of Tacitus " (1848)" " Prayer for Colleges" (1854" revised and enlarged repeatedly)'" Plato's Apology and Crito" (1859)" " Memoir of Dr. Henry Lobdell, Missionary to Assyria" (Boston, 1859)" "Theology of the Greek Poets" (1867)" "Plutarch on the Delay of the Deity," with Professor Horatio B. Hackett (New York, 1867) ; " Address at Semi-Centennial of ! Amherst College, with other Addresses on that Occasion" (1871)" "History of Amherst College " (1873)" " Demosthenes de Corona" (Boston, 1874); "Demosthenes's Philippics and Olynthiacs "(1875); and nine books of the "Iliad " (New York, 1886).