Theodore Chickering Williams (July 2, 1855,

Brookline, Massachusetts Brookline () is an affluent town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, and part of the Greater Boston, Boston metropolitan area. An exclave of Norfolk County, Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods: Brighton, Boston, Brighton ...

– May 6, 1915,

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) was an American Unitarian pastor and hymnwriter. He became the first headmaster of the

Hackley School Hackley School is a private college preparatory school located in Tarrytown, New York, and is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League. Founded in 1899 by a wealthy philanthropist, Frances Hackley, the school was intended to be a Unitar ...

, in

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, in 1899. He published English translations of the works of the Latin poets

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and

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. He graduated from

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and

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at the Cyber Hymnal * * Writers from Brookline, Massachusetts American Unitarian clergy American hymnwriters 1855 births 1915 deaths 19th-century American writers Latin–English translators 19th-century American translators Translators of Virgil Harvard College alumni Harvard Divinity School alumni {{US-translator-stub