“ Archdeacon Hardwick, the Christian Advocate, had compiled volumes on the Middle Ages and the Reformation, and soon after Hardwick's sudden death through a fall in the Pyrenees in 1859, Dr. Cheetham formed the plan for making Hardwick's story complete by prefixing a volume on the early Church and adding one on the Church in modern times. ”

“ It is not, perhaps, without its slight inaccuracies in detail or in proof-correcting, but it is remarkable for its soundness of judgment and its sense of proportion, two qualities which in other respects marked a very useful life. ”

“ The Venerable Samuel Cheetham, D.D., was a son of the late Mr. S,. Cheetham, of Hambleton, Rutland, where he was born on March 3, 1827. He was educated at the neighbouring grammar school at Oakham. He passed to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1850 as sixth senior optime in the Mathematical Tripos and eighth classic, those above him in the latter tripos including the later Master of Corpus and Dr. Hort. Cheetham was at once elected to a Fellowship at Christ's. ”