SPARROW, William, clergyman, born in Charles-town, Massachusetts, 12 March, 1801 ; died in Alexandria, Virginia, 17 January, 1874. He was taken by his father to Ireland in 1805, where he remained until 1817. His education was obtained partly in that country, and was completed in his native land. He entered Columbia in 1819, and remained for three years, but was not graduated with his class. In 1822 he rejoined his father's family in Ohio. He engaged in teaching, first in Worthington, Ohio, then in Cincinnati, in Miami university as professor of ancient languages, and in 1825 as professor in the same department in Kenyon college, Ohio. He was ordained deacon in Columbus, Ohio, 7 June, 1826, by Bishop Philander Chase, and priest, 11 June, 1826, in Worthington, Ohio, by the same bishop. From this date onward he was occupied in parochial work in different parishes in Ohio, in editing a church paper, and in the duties of theological professor in Kenyon college. In 1840 he removed to Virginia and became professor in the Episcopal theological seminary at Alexandria, which post he held during the remainder of his life. It e received the degree of D. D. from Kenyon college in 1838. Dr. Sparrow was evangelical after the pattern of Charles Simeon, Bishops Meade and McIlvaine, and Dr. Stephen H. Tyng. He was an able and successful teacher and was a sermonizer of rare excellence. He published numerous addresses, sermons on special occasions, tractates on important topics, and the like. Two years after his death a volume was published containing, his " Life and Correspondence " (Philadelphia, 1876), together with " Fragments," selected from his manuscripts.