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4. James Henthorn Todd, senior fellow of Trinity 

 College, and regius professor of Hebrew in the University 

 of Dublin, was born in 1 805. His life was devoted to the 

 improvement of the condition of the Irish Church, and the 

 promotion of learning among its clergy, and he founded 

 St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham. As librarian of 

 Trinity College, Dr. Todd arranged its rich collection of 

 Irish manuscripts, and brought the library to a high state 

 of efficiency. He founded the Irish Archaeological Society^ 

 for which he edited the Irish version of the Historia 

 Britonum of Nennius, and (in conjunction with Dr. Reeves) 

 the Martyrology of Donegal ; also the Liber Hymnorum, or 

 book of hymns of the ancient Irish Church. His edition 

 of Wars of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, in the Rolls Series, 

 appeared in 1867. Dr. Todd was elected President of the 

 Royal Irish Academy in 1856, and his portrait is in the 

 Academy's collection. After his death in 1869, a "Todd 

 Lectureship," to be attached to the Academy, was founded 

 in his memory, a post which has been held by several dis- 

 tinguished Irish scholars. 



