Brian Walton (bishop)
Anglican | |
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Spouse | Anne Claxton Jane Fuller |
Occupation | Priest, scholar |
Alma mater | Cambridge |
Brian Walton (1600 – 29 November 1661) was an
Life
Walton was born at Seymour, in the district of Cleveland,
He was buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral in London, but the grave and monument were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. His name appears on a modern monument in the crypt, listing important graves lost in the fire.[6]
Polyglot Bible
The proposals for the Polyglot appeared in 1652. The book itself came out in six great folios. The first volume appeared in September 1654; the second in July 1655; the third in July 1656; and the last three in 1657. Nine languages are used:
According to an assessment in Chisholm (1911):
However much Walton was indebted to his helpers, the Polyglot Bible is a great monument of industry and of capacity for directing a vast undertaking, and the Prolegomena (separately reprinted by Dathe, 1777, and by Francis Wrangham, 1825) show judgment as well as learning. The same qualities appear in Walton's Considerator Considered (1659), a reply to the Considerations of John Owen, who thought that the accumulation of material for the revision of the received text tended to atheism. Among Walton's works must also be mentioned an Introductio ad lectionem linguarum orientalium (1654; 2nd ed., 1655), meant to prepare the way for the Polyglot.[4]
Manuscripts used by Walton
See also
Notes
- ^ He was from January 1635 to 1636 rector of Sandon, in Essex, where his first wife, Anne Claxton, is buried. He appears to have also been a prebendary of St Paul's, and for a very short time he had held the rectory of St Giles in the Fields.
References
- ^ "The Armorial Bearings of the Bishop of Chester". Cheshire Heraldry Society. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ^ Welford, Richard (1895). Men of Mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed: L–Y. Vol. III. London; Castle-upon-Tyne: Walter Scott. p. 565. Citing:
- OCLC 3866325.
- Hogg, Alexander (ed.); Burlington, Charles (articles on England); Rees, David Llewellyn (articles on Wales); Murray, Alexander (articles on Scotland) (c. 1794). The Modern Universal British Traveller. London: J. Cooke. p. 609. )
- ^ "Walton, Brian (WLTN616B)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Walton, Brian". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 300. Endnotes:
- Henry J. Todd, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Walton (London, 1821), in two vols., of which the second contains a reprint of Walton's answer to Owen
- M'Clintock, John, and James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1880).
- ^ A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, Section G, word: "Goose". By James Parker. First Published in 1894. Accessed online January 2019.
- ^ Gill, Macdonald (1 January 1913), English: Lettering by Max Gill commemorating those who were buried or memorialised in Old St. Paul's Cathedral but whose tombs have not survived. Notable figures listed include King Ethelred, Henry de Lacey, John Poultney, John of Gaunt, his wife Constance (Constantia) of Castile [in fact an error: it was Gaunt's first wife, Blanche of Lancaster, who was buried in the cathedral], Thomas Linacre, William Herbert, Philip Sidney, Francis Walsingham, Christopher Hatton, Thomas Heneage, Thomas Baskerville, Nicholas Bacon, Robert Hare, William Dethick (or Dethic), William Cockayne, John Howson, Anthony Van Dyck and Bryan Walton., retrieved 10 October 2020
- ^ "From the Lowy Room: the magnificent 1657 Walton Polyglot Bible". Library and Archives Canada Blog. 19 February 2015.
- ^ Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 11, 2004, pp. 37–42
External links
- Dictionary of National Biography. 1885–1900. .
- Todd, Henry John (1821). Memoirs of the life and writings of the Right Rev. Brian Walton. F. C. & J. Rivington.
- Works by Brian Walton at Post-Reformation Digital Library