Henry Giles, an American clergyman and lecturer, born in county Wexford, Ireland, Nov. 1, 1809. He was educated in the Roman Catholic church, but after various changes of opinion joined the Unitarians, and officiated as pastor in Greenock for two years, and in Liverpool for three years. In 1840 he came to America, where he has been extensively engaged in lecturing, with occasional services in different parishes as a preacher. He has pub-listed Lectures and Essays" (2 vols., Boston, 1845),Christian Thoughts on Life" (1850), and "Illustrations of Genius in some of its applications to Society and Culture" (1854). He has also written much for periodicals, has addressed literary societies, and library associations, and given a course of lectures before the Lowell institute in Boston on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare." He now (1874) resides in Quincy, Mass.