William Fiddian Moulton (14 March 1835 – 5 February 1898) was an English

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minister, biblical scholar and educator.

Biography

William's father, James Moulton, was a Wesleyan Methodist minister and he had at least three other brothers, and probably two sisters. Like his father and grandfather, William became a Weslyan minister and in 1875 the first headmaster of

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, Cambridge. He remained headmaster for the rest of his life; one of the school's houses is named after him. He was elected

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in 1890. On a stormy afternoon in 1898, he was on his way to visit a sick parishioner when he suffered a heart attack in the grounds of the school. A gardener found him and bought him back to his house, where he died soon after, aged sixty-two. He was interred in

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, and has a memorial in

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. In his biography, his son

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noted that "So genuine was his sense of unworthiness that praise to him became a positive pain. He would walk out of the room rather than hear a laudatory passage about himself."

Works

He wrote a concordance of the

Greek New Testament Greek New Testament refers to the New Testament in Koine Greek. It may also refer to the following texts: * ''Novum Instrumentum omne'' * ''Textus Receptus'', the basis of the King James Bible * '' Novum Testamentum Graece'', a critical edition of ...

, and some titles with his son James. He sat on various inter-denominational committees concerned with translations of the New Testament. ;Selected writings * ''A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek'' by G. B. Winer, translated from the German

* ''Concordance to the Greek Testament'', with Alfred Shenington Gedenbr>
(subsequently revised by his grandson Harold Keeling Moulton, ) * ''The Story of the Manchester Mission'' * ''The Old World and the New Faith, Notes Upon the Historical Narrative Contained in the Acts of the Apostles'

;Biography * ''William F. Moulton, a memoir'

written by his two sons, William Fiddian Moulton Jr. and James Hope Moulton.

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''John Wesley's School at Kingswood''
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