Rev. William Ralph Churton, D.D. (1837–1897) was an Anglican churchman and author.

Life

William Ralph Churton was the son of

Edward Churton Edward Churton (26 January 1800 – July 1874) was an English churchman and Spanish scholar. Life He was born on 26 January 1800 at Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, the second son of Ralph Churton, archdeacon of St David's. He was educated at ...

and should be distinguished from his uncle Rev. William Ralph Churton (8 Sep 1802 d. 29 Aug 1828) son of

Ralph Churton Ralph Churton (1754 – 1831) was an English churchman and academic, archdeacon of St David's and a biographer. Life He was born on an estate called the Snabb, in the township of Bickley and parish of Malpas, Cheshire, on 8 December 1754, being ...

. He was educated at

Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. Eton may also refer to: Places *Eton, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England * Eton, Georgia, a town in the United States * Éton, a commune in the Meuse dep ...

and

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

. Churton wrote on the

Septuagint The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond th ...

(1861). His edition of the ''Uncanonical and Apocryphal Scriptures'' was the first to include a translation of the Bensly fragment (

2 Esdras 2 Esdras (also called 4 Esdras, Latin Esdras, or Latin Ezra) is an apocalyptic book in some English versions of the Bible. Tradition ascribes it to Ezra, a scribe and priest of the , but scholarship places its composition between 70 and . It ...

7:36-105),

Psalm 151 Psalm 151 is a short psalm found in most copies of the Septuagint (LXX), but not in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. The title given to this psalm in the Septuagint indicates that it is supernumerary, as no number is affixed to it. The psal ...

and

Third Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * Second#Sexagesimal divisions of calendar time and day, 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute'' Places * 3rd Street (d ...

and Fourth Maccabees.

Works

* ''The Influence of the Septuagint Version of The Old Testament upon the Progress of Christianity''. By the Rev. William Ralph Churton, BA, Fellow of King's College. 12mo. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. 1861 * ''The Uncanonical and Apocryphal Scriptures: Being the Additions to the Old Testament Canon Which Were Included in the Ancient Greek and Latin Versions; the English Text of the Authorised Version Together with the Additional Matter Found in the Vulgate and Other Ancient Versions'' (London: J.Whitaker, 1884)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Churton, William Ralph 1837 births 1897 deaths English Anglicans People educated at Eton College Fellows of King's College, Cambridge Anglican biblical scholars 19th-century Anglican theologians