Samuel Gosnell Green Explained
Samuel Gosnell Green (20 December 1822 – 15 September 1905) was an English Baptist minister, educator, author, and bibliophile.[1] [2]
Born in Falmouth, Cornwall, Green was the eldest son among the nine children of a Baptist minister and was sent to a private school in Camberwell. After leaving school, he worked in the printing office of John Haddon in Finsbury and then as a tutor until the age of nineteen. He matriculated in 1840 at the Baptist College, Stepney to prepare for the Baptist ministry and graduated in 1843 with a B.A. from the University of London.[1]
Green was the editorial secretary of the Religious Tract Society until 1891.[2] In 1900 the University of St Andrews bestowed upon him the honorary degree of D.D.[1] He was the author of eighteen books.[2]
He married in 1848. His wife died in May 1905 shortly before he died in September 1905 in Streatham. There were three sons and a daughter from the marriage.[1]
Selected publications
- Book: Religious hindrances to religious revival . 1845.
- Book: The working-classes of Great Britain, their present condition, &c. . 1850.
- Book: Clerical subscription and national morality (Bicentenary Lectures) . 1862.
- Book: Handbook to the grammar of the Greek Testament . 1870. Revised and improved edition, 1886
- Book: Bible sketches and their teachings, for young people . 1871.
- with illustrations by English and foreign artists: Book: French pictures drawn with pen and pencil . 1878.
- with illustrations by Samuel Manning: Book: English pictures drawn with pen and pencil . 1879.
- Book: What do I believe? . 1880. (Welsh translation, 1882)
- Book: The Psalms of David and modern criticism . 1893.
- Book: A brief introduction to New Testament Greek with vocabularies and exercises . 1894 .
- Book: The Christian creed and the creeds of Christendom; seven lectures delivered in 1898 at Regent's Park College, London . 1898.
- Book: The story of the Religious Tract Society for one hundred years . 1899 .
- Book: Handbook to Old Testament Hebrew . 1901 .
- with Joseph Angus: Book: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . 1904.
- Book: Handbook of Church History . 1904.
References
- Green, Samuel Gosnell. 153–155.
- Book: Brackney, William H.. The A to Z of the Baptists. Green, Samuel Gosnell (1822–1905). 2009. 264. 9780810870710. https://books.google.com/books?id=BgfzHyve0T4C&pg=PA264.
