Edward William Grinfield

He was the son of Thomas Grinfield and Anna Joanna, daughter of Joseph Foster Barham of Bedford, and brother of Thomas Grinfield. He was a schoolfellow of Thomas de Quincey at Wingfield, Wiltshire.^[1] He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, proceeded B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, and was ordained in the same year by the Bishop of Lincoln.^[2]

After studying law at Lincoln's Inn and the Inner Temple, Grinfield became minister of Laura Chapel, Bath. It had been founded by Francis Randolph, its proprietor, in 1756.^[3] Later he moved to London, where he occasionally preached at Kensington.^[2][4]

In 1859 Grinfield founded and endowed a lectureship at Oxford on the Septuagint. He died at Brighton on 9 July 1864, and was buried in Hove churchyard.^[2]

Grinfield wrote many pamphlets, articles, and reviews, as an advocate of Anglican orthodoxy. His works are:^[2]

• ‘Reflections on the Connection of the British Government with the Protestant Religion,’ 1807.
• ‘The Crisis of Religion,’ 1811, and with ‘Strictures on Mr. Lancaster's System of Popular Education,’ 1812.
• ‘Reflections upon the Influence of Infidelity and Profaneness on Public Liberty, with a Plan for National Circulating Libraries,’ 1817.
• ‘Connection of Natural and Revealed Theology,’ 1818.
• ‘Cursory Observations upon the Lectures in Physiology, Zoology, and Natural History of Man, by Mr. Laurence,’ 2nd edition, 1819.
• ‘Sermons on the Parables,’ 1819.
• ‘The Researches of Physiology,’ 1820.
• ‘Thoughts on Lord Brougham's Education Bill,’ 1821.
• ‘Vindiciæ Anglicanæ, Letter to Dr. Copleston on his Inquiry into the Doctrine of Necessity and Predestination, with a second part,’ 1822.
• ‘Sermon on Paley's Exposition of the Law of Honour,’ 1824.
• ‘The Doctrinal Harmony of the New Testament,’ 1824.
• ‘A Reply to Mr. Brougham's Practical Observations upon the Education of the People,’ 1825.
• ‘The Nature and Extent of the Christian Dispensation with reference to the Salvability of the Heathen,’ 1827.
• ‘A Scriptural Inquiry into the Nature and Import of the Image and Likeness of God in Man,’ 1830.
• ‘Sketches of the Danish Mission on the Coast of Coromandel,’ 1831.
• ‘Christian Sentiments suggested by the Present Crisis; or, Civil Liberty founded upon Self-Restraint,’ 1831.
• ‘Reflections after a Visit to the University of Oxford,’ on the proceedings against Renn Dickson Hampden, 1836.
• 'The Chart and Scale of Truth,' 1840.
• 'Novum Testamentum Græcum. Editio Hellenistica,' 1843.
• 'Scholia Hellenistica in Novum Testamentum,' &c., 1848.
• 'An Expostulatory Letter to the Right Rev. Bishop Wiseman on the Interpolated Curse in the Vatican Septuagint,' 1850.
• 'An Apology for the Septuagint,' 1850.
• 'The Jesuits: an Historical Sketch,’ 1851, 1853.
• ‘The Christian Cosmos: the Son of God the revealed Creator,’ 1856.

• 1861–1862 Edward Halifax Hansell^[5]
• 1863–1865 John Day Collis^[6]
• 1865–1869 James Augustus Hessey^[7]
• 1869 William Kay^[8]
• 1871 Wharton Booth Marriott^[9]
• 1872–1874 Edward Hayes Plumptre^[10]
• 1876–1878 John Wordsworth
• 1882–1884 Edwin Hatch^[11]
• 1886–1890 Alfred Edersheim^[12]
• 1893, 1895–1897 Charles Henry Hamilton Wright^[13]
• 1901–1905 Henry Adeney Redpath^[14]
• 1905–1911 Robert Henry Charles^[15]
• 1920 Henry St. John Thackeray^[16]
• 1919–1921 George Buchanan Gray^[17]
• 1927–1931 Charles Harold Dodd^[18]
• 1935–1939 Godfrey Rolles Driver^[19]
• 1943–1945 Thomas Walter Manson^[20]
• 1945–1949 George Dunbar Kilpatrick^[21]
• 1961–1965 George Bradford Caird^[22]
• 1969–1973 Sidney Jellicoe
• 1996-1998 John Lowden^[23]
• 1998-2000 Eugene Ulrich
• 2005–2006 Tessa Rajak^[24]
• 2007–2008 Jennifer Dines
• 2009–2010 Anneli Aejmelaeus
• 2011–2012 John Lee
• 2013–2014 Nicholas De Lange
• 2020-2022 James K. Aitken