Scrivener

Scrivener, FREDERICK HENRY AMBROSE, a distinguished New Testament critic, was born at Bermondsey in Surrey, September 29, 1813, and had his education at St Olave's, Southwark, and Trinity College, Cambridge. For some time assistant-master at Sherborne, he was head-master of Falmouth School from 1846 to 1856 (holding part of the time the perpetual curacy of Penwarris), and rector of Gerrans from 1861 till 1876, when he was presented to the vicarage of Hendon and made a prebendary of Exeter. One of the New Testament revisers from the beginning, he received a Civil List pension of £100 in 1872, the St Andrews LL.D. in the same year, and the Oxford D.C.L. in 1876. His Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (1861) was at once admitted to the rank of a standard authority. Among his other books are Bezae Codex Cantabrigiensis (1867), Cambridge Paraphrase Bible (1870-71), Six Popular Lectures on the New Testament Text (1875), Codex S. Ceaddae Lat. Eccl. Cath. Lich. (1887). He died at Hendon, October 26, 1891.