Cureton.

Cureton. WILLIAM, Syriac scholar, born at Westbury, Shropshire, in 1808, studied at Oxford, and was ordained in 1831. In 1837 he entered the British Museum as assistant-keeper of manuscripts, and here his labours brought to light a Syriac version of the Epistle of Ignatius (q.v.), remains of a Syriac recension of the Gospels, and other MSS. of more or less value, which involved their editor in long controversies. In 1849 Cureton was appointed canon of Westminster and rector of St Margaret's. Among other honours, he received the degree of LL.D. from Oxford and of D.D. from Halle, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign associate of the Institute of France. He died 17th June 1864.