Jelf, WILLIAM EDWARD

Jelf, WILLIAM EDWARD, Greek grammarian, was son of Sir James Jelf, of Oaklands, Gloucestershire, and was born at Gloucester in 1811. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, took a first-class in 1833, and was successively tutor and censor of his college, public examiner and proctor of the university. He was one of the preachers at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, 1846-48, and gave the Hampton Lectures in 1857 on Christian Faith. In 1861 he published a letter to Dr Temple on the 'Supremacy of Scripture' in answer to his famous essay on 'The Education of the World.' Dr Jelf died October 18, 1875. He is best remembered as the author of a Greek Grammar, based on that of Kühner (1842-45; 4th ed. 1866), still the most complete in English. His Examination into the Doctrine of Confession appeared in 1875; his Ritualism, Romanism, and the English Reformation in 1876; a Commentary to the 1st Epistle of John in 1877.