William Fiddian Moulton
| William Fiddian Moulton | |
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| Born | 14 March 1835 |
| Died | 5 February 1898 (aged 62) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Methodist Church of Great Britain minister |
Rev. William Fiddian Moulton (14 March 1835 – 5 February 1898) was an English Methodist minister, Biblical scholar and educator.
Biography
William's father, James Moulton, was a Wesleyan 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 The Leys School, Cambridge. He remained headmaster for the rest of his life; one of the school's houses is named after him.
He was elected President of the Methodist Conference at Bristol in 1890.[1]
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 Histon Road Cemetery, Cambridge, and has a memorial in Wesley's Chapel, London.
In his biography, his son James 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, 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 Geden , (subsequently revised by his grandson Harold Keeling Moulton, ISBN 0 567 08571 6)
- William F. Moulton, a memoir written by his two sons, William Fiddian Moulton Jr. and James Hope Moulton.
- The Papers of Oscar Browning, written with James Hope 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
See also
- John Fletcher Moulton, brother
- Richard Green Moulton, brother
- James Egan Moulton, brother
- James Hope Moulton, son
References
- ↑ anon. (1891). Wesley and His Successors. London: Charles H Kelly. p. 258.
Sources
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Norgate, Gerald le Grys (1901). "Moulton, William Fiddian". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - John Wesley's School at Kingswood by John Telford