Edward William Grinfield Explained
| Edward William Grinfield |
| Birth Date: | 1785 |
| Death Date: | 9 July 1864 |
| Death Place: | Brighton, England |
| Nationality: | English |
| Occupation: | Biblical scholar and clergyman |
| Religion: | Christian (Anglican) |
| Parents: | Thomas Grinfield and Anna Joanna (nee Barham) |
| Family: | --> |
| Ordained: | 1808 |
| Offices Held: | Minister of Laura Chapel, Bath |
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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 at Wingfield, Wiltshire.[1] He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, proceeded B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, and was ordained in the same year by the Bishop of Lincoln.[2]
After studying law at Lincoln's Inn and the Inner Temple, 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.[2]
In 1859 Grinfield founded and endowed a lectureship at Oxford on the Septuagint. He died at Brighton on 9 July 1864, and was buried in Hove churchyard.[2]
Works
Grinfield wrote many pamphlets, articles, and reviews, as an advocate of Anglican orthodoxy. His works are:[2]
- ‘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, 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
Notes and References
- Web site: Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 7 – Parishes: Wingfield. British History Online. University of London. 20 July 2015.
- Grinfield, Edward William.
- Collis, John Day.
- Book: Handel Andrews. The Church's One Foundation: Church and Bible Themes. 13 December 2012. 28 June 2011. Xlibris Corporation. 978-1-4628-6965-7. 157.
- Book: George Dunbar Kilpatrick. J. K. (James Keith) Elliott. Studies in New Testament Language and Text: Essays in Honour of George D. Kilpatrick on the Occasion of His Sixty- Fifth Birthday. 13 December 2012. 1976. Brill Archive. 978-90-04-04386-2. 2.
- Web site: Oxford University Gazette.
- Web site: Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
