Andrew Robert Fausset
Andrew Robert Fausset (1821–1910) was an Irish
Life
Born on 13 October 1821 at Silverhill,
On graduating, Fausset became an academic coach at Trinity. He was ordained deacon in 1847 and priest in 1848 by Edward Maltby, the Bishop of Durham, and served from 1847 to 1859 as curate of Bishop Middleham, a Durham colliery village. From 1859 until his death he was rector of the parish of St Cuthbert's Church, York.[1]
In 1885 Fausset was made a prebendary of York Minster. He died at York on 8 February 1910.[1]
Works
Fausset wrote much on
- Scripture and the Prayer-Book in Harmony, 1854; revised ed. 1894, an answer to objections against the liturgy.
- Volumes ii. and iv. (Job, Ecclesiastes, Malachi; Corinthians I and Revelation) in the Critical and Explanatory Pocket Bible, 1863–4.
- Studies in the CL. Psalms, 1877; 2nd edit. 1885, an application of the argument from "undesigned coincidences".
- The Englishman's Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopædia, originally issued in parts, in volume form, 1878. It appeared in 1891 as 950,000 words.[2]
- Signs of the Times, 1881.
- Commentary on Judges, 1885.
- Guide to the Study of the Book of Common Prayer, 1894, 3rd edit. 1903.
Fausset also translated into English Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament (1857), with notes and a life of Bengel. As a classical scholar, he produced editions of:[1]
- The comedies of Terence (omitting the Eunuch) (1844);
- Homer's Iliad, i.–viii. (1846), influenced by criticisms of Friedrich August Wolf, Carsten Niebuhr and George Grote; and of
- Livy, i.-iii., with prolegomena and notes (1849).
He translated also the Hecuba (1850) and the Medea (1851) of Euripides.[1]
Family
Fausset was three times married:[1]
- in 1859, to Elizabeth, daughter of William Knowlson, of York, by whom he had three sons and one daughter;
- in 1874, to Agnes Antonia, daughter of Major William Porter, of Hembury Fort, Honiton, by whom he had one son; and
- in 1889, to Frances, youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. William Alder Strange, headmaster of Abingdon School and vicar of Bishop Middleham.
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8028-3781-3.
- ^ Bibliotheca Sacra. Dallas Theological Seminary. 1871. p. 200.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Buckland, Augustus Robert (1912). "Fausset, Andrew Robert". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Buckland, A. R.; Foster, I. T. "Fausset, Andrew Robert (1821–1910)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33095. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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