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
Thomas de Quincey
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at
Wingfield, Wiltshire. He entered
Lincoln College, Oxford
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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
Lincoln's Inn and the
Inner Temple
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, 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.
In 1859 Grinfield founded and endowed a lectureship at Oxford on the
Septuagint
The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond t ...
. He died at
Brighton on 9 July 1864, and was buried in
Hove
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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
Renn Dickson Hampden
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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
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*1865–1869
James Augustus Hessey
*1869
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*1871
Wharton Booth Marriott
*1872–1874
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*1876–1878
John Wordsworth
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*1882–1884
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*1886–1890
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*1893, 1895–1897
Charles Henry Hamilton Wright
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*1901–1905
Henry Adeney Redpath
*1905–1911
Robert Henry Charles
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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
*1945–1949
George Dunbar Kilpatrick
*1961–1965
George Bradford Caird
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*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
Nicholas De Lange
*2020-2022 James K. Aitken
References
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1785 births
1864 deaths
19th-century English Anglican priests
Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
Members of Lincoln's Inn
Members of the Inner Temple
British biblical scholars
Anglican biblical scholars