William Ralph Churton

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

Life

William Ralph Churton was the son of Edward Churton[1] and should be distinguished from his uncle Rev. William Ralph Churton (8 Sep 1802 d. 29 Aug 1828) son of Ralph Churton. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.[2]

Churton wrote on the Septuagint (1861). His edition of the Uncanonical and Apocryphal Scriptures was the first to include a translation of the Bensly fragment (2 Esdras 7:36-105), Psalm 151 and Third and Fourth Maccabees.

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