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EDWARD HAYES PLUMPTRE (1821-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 856 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:HAYES See also:PLUMPTRE (1821-1891)  , See also:English divine and See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:London on the 6th of See also:August 1821 . A scholar of University See also:College, See also:Oxford, he graduated with a See also:double-first class in 1844, and in the same See also:year he was elected See also:fellow of Brasenose College . He was ordained in 1847, and shortly afterwards appointed See also:chaplain, and then See also:professor of See also:pastoral See also:theology, at See also:King's College, London . In 1863 he was given a prebendal See also:stall at St See also:Paul's, and from 1869 to 1874 he was' a member of the See also:committee appointed by See also:Convocation to revise the authorized version of the Old Testament . He was See also:Boyle lecturer in 1866—1867 (" See also:Christ and Christendom "), and Grinfield lecturer on the See also:Septuagint at Oxford 1872—1874 . After successively holding the livings of Pluckley and Brickley in See also:Kent, he was installed in 1881 as See also:dean of See also:Wells . He died on the 1st of See also:February 1891 . See also:Plumptre was a See also:man of See also:great versatility and attained high reputation as a translator of the plays of See also:Sophocles (1865) and See also:Aeschylus (1868), and of the Divina commedia of See also:Dante (1886) . In See also:verse his See also:main achievements were See also:Lazarus (1864), and See also:Master and Scholar (1866) . Among his many theological See also:works may be mentioned An Exposition of the Epistles to the Seven Churches of See also:Asia (1877), The See also:Spirits in See also:Prison (1884), " The See also:Book of See also:Proverbs " (which he annotated in the See also:Speaker's Commentary), the " Synoptic Gospels, Acts, and II . See also:Corinthians," in See also:Bishop Ellicott's New Testament Commentary, and See also:Life of Bishop See also:Ken (1888) .

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