Rev. Samuel Newth, Professor of Classics, New College, London.[119]
Dr. A. Roberts.[120]
Dr. R. Scott, Master of Balliol College, Oxford.[121]
Rev. F. H. Scrivener.[122]
Dr. G. Vance Smith.[123]
Dr. A. P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster.
Dr. R. C. Trench, Archbishop of Dublin.
Dr. C. J. Vaughan, Master of the Temple.[124]
Dr. B. F. Westcott, Canon of Peterborough.[125]
Dr. S. Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester.
To these lists some changes have, from various causes, been made in the
course of the last ten years, both in the way of addition, and in the way
of removal.
* * * * *
To the Old Testament Company thirteen members have been added--
Mr. R. N. Bensley, Hebrew Lecturer, Caius College, Cambridge.
Rev. J. Birrill, Professor of Oriental Languages, St Andrews,
Scotland.
Dr. F. Chance.
Rev. T. K. Cheyne, Hebrew Lecturer, Balliol College, Oxford.
Dr. G. Douglas, Professor of Hebrew, Free Church College, Glasgow.
Mr. S. R Driver, Tutor of New College, Oxford.
Rev. C. J. Elliott.
Rev. J. D. Geden, Professor of Hebrew, Wesleyan College, Didsbury.
Rev. J. R. Lumby, Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge.[126]
Rev. A. H. Sayce, Tutor of Queen’s College, Oxford.
Rev. W. Robertson Smith, Professor of Hebrew, Free Church College,
Aberdeen.
Dr. D. H. Weir, Professor of Oriental Languages, Glasgow.
Dr. W. Wright, Professor of Arabic, Cambridge.
During the same period it has lost ten members, seven by death: Professor
Davies, Professor Fairbairn, Professor McGill, Archdeacon Rose, Canon
Selwyn, Bishop Thirlwall, Professor Weir; and three by resignation--Canon
Jebb, Professor Plumptre, and Bishop Wordsworth.
* * * * *
The New Testament Company has undergone less change. Four members have
been added--
Dr. David Brown, Professor of Divinity, Free Church College, Aberdeen.
Dr. C. Merivale, Dean of Ely.
Rev. Edwin Palmer, Professor of Latin, Oxford.[127]
Dr. Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrews.
Four also have been removed--Dean Alford, Dr. Eadie, and Bishop
Wilberforce by death, Dean Merivale by resignation.
* * * * *
The first chairman of the Old Testament Company was Bishop Thirlwall. Upon
his resignation of the office in 1871 Dr. Harold Browne, then Bishop of
Ely, now Bishop of Winchester, was appointed to succeed him, and has
continued to hold the office until now. Dr. Ellicott, Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol, has from the first presided over the New
Testament Company.
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