Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

LL.D. (St. Andrew's, 1872), D.C.L. (Oxford, 1876), Church of England; b. at Bermondsey, Surrey, Sept. 29, 1813; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. (third in second-cla cla ical tripos) 1835, M.A. 1838; became a istant master of King's School, Sherborne, 1835; curate of Sand ford Orcas, Somerset, 1838; perpetual curate of Pen werris, Cornwall, 1846; rector of St. Gerrans, Cornwall, 1861; vicar of Hendon, Middle sex, 1876. He was a member of the New- Testament Revision Company, received a pension of a hundred pounds in 1872 in recognition of his eminent biblical services, and is the author of Notes on the Authorized Version of the New Testament, London, 1845; Collation of Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospel, 1853; Codex Augiensis, and Fifty other Manuscripts, 1859;' Novum Test amentum Textus Slephanici, 1860, 6th ed. 1873 Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 1861, 3d ed. much enlarged, 1883; Collation of the Codex Sinaiticus, 1863, 2d ed. revised, 1867; Bezaz Codex Cant a brig i ens is, 1864; Six Popular Lectures on the Text of the New Testament, 1875 edited The Cambridge Paragraph Bible, 1873 (Introduction, revised separate edition, 1884); Greek Testament, 7th ed. 1877; Greek Testament with Changes of New-Testament Revisers, 1881. *