Edward William Grinfield (1785–1864) was an English biblical scholar.

Life

He was the son of Thomas Grinfield and Anna Joanna, daughter of Joseph Foster Barham of Bedford, and brother of Thomas Grinfield. He was a schoolfellow of

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. He entered

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, proceeded B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, and was ordained in the same year by the Bishop of Lincoln. After studying law at

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and the

Inner Temple The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as the Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court and is a professional association for barristers and judges. To be called to the Bar and practice as a barrister in England and Wa ...

, Grinfield became minister of Laura Chapel, Bath. It had been founded by Francis Randolph, its proprietor, in 1756. Later he moved to London, where he occasionally preached at

Kensington Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensingt ...

. In 1859 Grinfield founded and endowed a lectureship at Oxford on the

Septuagint The Septuagint ( ), sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (), and abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew. The full Greek ...

. He died at

Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...

on 9 July 1864, and was buried in

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churchyard.

Works

Grinfield wrote many pamphlets, articles, and reviews, as an advocate of Anglican orthodoxy. His works are: * ‘Reflections on the Connection of the British Government with the Protestant Religion,’ 1807. * ‘The Crisis of Religion,’ 1811, and with ‘Strictures on Mr. Lancaster's System of Popular Education,’ 1812. * ‘Reflections upon the Influence of Infidelity and Profaneness on Public Liberty, with a Plan for National Circulating Libraries,’ 1817. * ‘Connection of Natural and Revealed Theology,’ 1818. * ‘Cursory Observations upon the Lectures in Physiology, Zoology, and Natural History of Man, by Mr. Laurence,’ 2nd edition, 1819. * ‘Sermons on the Parables,’ 1819. * ‘The Researches of Physiology,’ 1820. * ‘Thoughts on Lord Brougham's Education Bill,’ 1821. * ‘Vindiciæ Anglicanæ, Letter to Dr. Copleston on his Inquiry into the Doctrine of Necessity and Predestination, with a second part,’ 1822. * ‘Sermon on Paley's Exposition of the Law of Honour,’ 1824. * ‘The Doctrinal Harmony of the New Testament,’ 1824. * ‘A Reply to Mr. Brougham's Practical Observations upon the Education of the People,’ 1825. * ‘The Nature and Extent of the Christian Dispensation with reference to the Salvability of the Heathen,’ 1827. * ‘A Scriptural Inquiry into the Nature and Import of the Image and Likeness of God in Man,’ 1830. * ‘Sketches of the Danish Mission on the Coast of Coromandel,’ 1831. * ‘Christian Sentiments suggested by the Present Crisis; or, Civil Liberty founded upon Self-Restraint,’ 1831. * ‘Reflections after a Visit to the University of Oxford,’ on the proceedings against

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, 1836. * 'The Chart and Scale of Truth,' 1840. * 'Novum Testamentum Græcum. Editio Hellenistica,' 1843. * 'Scholia Hellenistica in Novum Testamentum,' &c., 1848. * 'An Expostulatory Letter to the Right Rev. Bishop Wiseman on the Interpolated Curse in the Vatican Septuagint,' 1850. *
An Apology for the Septuagint
' 1850. * 'The Jesuits: an Historical Sketch,’ 1851, 1853. * ‘The Christian Cosmos: the Son of God the revealed Creator,’ 1856.

Grinfield Lecturers

*1861–1862 Edward Halifax Hansell *1863–1865 John Day Collis *1865–1869 James Augustus Hessey *1869 William Kay *1871 Wharton Booth Marriott *1872–1874

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*1876–1878

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*1882–1884 Edwin Hatch *1886–1890 Alfred Edersheim *1893, 1895–1897

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*1901–1905 Henry Adeney Redpath *1905–1911

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*1920 Henry St. John Thackeray *1919–1921 George Buchanan Gray *1927–1931 Charles Harold Dodd *1935–1939

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*1943–1945

Thomas Walter Manson Thomas Walter Manson (July 22, 1893 – May 1, 1958), FBA was an English biblical scholar. Born in North Shields on July 22, 1893, he was educated at Tynemouth Municipal High School and the University of Glasgow where he was awarded an M.A. In ...

*1945–1949

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*1961–1965 George Bradford Caird *1969–1973 Sidney Jellicoe *1996-1998 John Lowden *1998-2000 Eugene Ulrich *2005–2006 Tessa Rajak *2007–2008 Jennifer Dines *2009–2010 Anneli Aejmelaeus *2011–2012 John Lee *2013–2014

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*2020-2022 James K. Aitken

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