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JOHN WESLEY ETHERIDGE (1804-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 808 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN WESLEY ETHERIDGE (1804-1866)  ,
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English non-conformist divine, was born near
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Newport, Isle of Wight, on the 24th of
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February 1804 . He received most of his early
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education from his
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father . Though he never attended any university he acquired ultimately a thorough knowledge of Greek, Latin,
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Hebrew,
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Syriac, French and German . In 1824 he was placed on the Wesleyan Methodist plan as a
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local preacher . In 1826 his affer to enter tie
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ministry was accepted, and after the usual probationary trial he was received into full connexion at the
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conference of 1831 . For two years after this he remained at
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Brighton, and in 1833 he removed to
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Cornwall, being stationed successively at the Truro and
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Falmouth circuits . From Falmouth he removed to Darlaston, where in 1838 his
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health gave way . For a good many years he was a supernumerary, and lived for a while at
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Caen and Paris, where in the public
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libraries he found
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great facilities for prosecuting his favourite
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Oriental studies . His health having considerably improved, he became, in 1843, pastor of the Methodist church at Boulogne . He returned to England in 1847, and was appointed successively to the circuits of Islington, Bristol, Leeds,
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Penzance,
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Penryn, Truro and St Austell in east Cornwall . Shortly after his return to England he received the degree of Ph.D. from the university of
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Heidelberg . He was a patient, modest, hard-working and accurate scholar .

He died at

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Camborne on the 24th of May 1866 . His
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principal
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works are Horae Aramaicae (1843) ;
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History, Liturgies and Literature of the Syrian Churches (1847); The Apostolic Acts and Epistles, from the Peshito or Ancient Syriac (1849); Jerusalem and
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Tiberias, a Survey of the Religious and Scholastic Learning of the Jews (1856); The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel (1st vol. in 1862, 2nd in 1865) . See Memoir, by Rev . Thornley Smith (1871) .

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