EDWARD

See also:

• HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD (1822–1893)

HAYES

See also:

• EDWARD HAYES PLUMPTRE (1821-1891)

PLUMPTRE (1821-1891)  , English divine and scholar, was born in London on the 6th of August 1821 . A scholar of University College, Oxford, he graduated with a double-first class in 1844, and in the same year he was elected fellow of Brasenose College . He was ordained in 1847, and shortly afterwards appointed chaplain, and then professor of pastoral theology, at King's College, London . In 1863 he was given a prebendal stall at St Paul's, and from 1869 to 1874 he was' a member of the committee appointed by Convocation to revise the authorized version of the Old Testament . He was Boyle lecturer in 1866—1867 (" Christ and Christendom "), and Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint at Oxford 1872—1874 . After successively holding the livings of Pluckley and Brickley in Kent, he was installed in 1881 as dean of Wells . He died on the 1st of February 1891 . Plumptre was a man of great versatility and attained high reputation as a translator of the plays of Sophocles (1865) and Aeschylus (1868), and of the Divina commedia of Dante (1886) . In verse his main achievements were Lazarus (1864), and Master and Scholar (1866) . Among his many theological works may be mentioned An Exposition of the Epistles to the Seven Churches of Asia (1877), The Spirits in Prison (1884), " The Book of Proverbs " (which he annotated in the Speaker's Commentary), the " Synoptic Gospels, Acts, and II . Corinthians," in Bishop Ellicott's New Testament Commentary, and Life of Bishop Ken (1888) .