SIMEON, Charles, an eminently pious divine of the Church of England, was born at Reading in 1759. He was educated at Eton, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he received those deep impressions of religious truth which formed so marked a feature of his character throughout his whole life. The theological studies of the place formed for him the chief attraction. He was presented to the living of Trinity Church, Cambridge, in 1783, and continued to labour with an astonishing amount of assiduity among both poor and rich, learned and ignorant, for the next 53 years. In 1832, his sermons were published, forming 21 volumes, with upwards of 2000 skeleton sermons, which have had a large degree of popularity among the common run of preachers of Great Britain since his time. He was on terms of intimate friendship with nearly all the pious ministers of his day. None was more esteemed than the godly missionary Henry Martyn. Simeon died on the 13th November 1836, leaving behind him a name for piety and worth not likely soon to be forgotten. (See Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Simeon, by the Rev. W. Carus, 1847.)