FORSYTH

forsyth, peter taylor (1848- ), british nonconformist divine, was born at aberdeen in 1848. he took first-class honours in classics at aberdeen, subsequently studied at gottingen (under ritschl) and at new college, hampstead, and entered the congregational ministry. having held pastorates at shipley, hackney, manchester, leicester and cambridge, he became principal of hackney theological college, hampstead, in 1901. in 1907 he delivered the lyman beecher lectures on preaching at yale university, published as _positive preaching and modern mind_. among his other publications may be mentioned _religion in recent art_, and articles in the _contemporary review_, _hibbert journal_, and _london quarterly_. he was chairman of the congregational union of england and wales in 1905. fortaleza (usually called ceara by foreigners), a city and port of brazil and the capital of the state of ceara, on a crescent-shaped indentation of the coast-line immediately w. of cape mucuripe or mocoripe, 7-1/2 m. from the mouth of the ceara river, in lat. 3 deg. 42'