Chenery

Chenery, Thomas, editor of the Times newspaper, was born in 1826 at Barbadoes. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he was called to the bar. He went as correspondent for the Times to Constantinople in the time of the Crimean war, and afterwards became attached to the staff until 1877, when he became editor. He was a thorough Hebrew and Arabic scholar, and was one of the Old Testament revisers. He died in 1884.