Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

WALTON, BRIAN (1600-1661)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 300 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

WALTON, See also:BRIAN (1600-1661) , See also:English divine and See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Seymour, in the See also:district of See also:Cleveland, See also:Yorkshire, in i600. He went to See also:Cambridge as a See also:sizar of Magdalene See also:College in 1616, migrated to Peterhouse in 1618, was See also:bachelor in 1619 and See also:master of arts in 1623. After holding a school mastership and two curacies, he was made See also:rector of St See also:Martin's Orgar in See also:London in 1628, where he took a leading See also:part in the contest between the London See also:clergy and the citizens about the thy See also:tithes, and compiled a See also:treatise on the subject, which is printed in See also:Brewster's Collectanea (1752). His conduct in this See also:matter displayed his ability, but his zeal for the exaction of ecclesiastical dues was remembered in 1641 in the articles brought against him in See also:parliament, which appear to have led to the See also:sequestration of his very considerable preferments .2 He was also charged with Popish practices, but on frivolous grounds, and with aspersing the members of parliament for the See also:city. 1 " He who has the love of a See also:good woman Is ashamed of every misdeed. " 4 He was from See also:January 1635–1636 rector of Sandon, in See also:Essex, where his first wife, See also:Anne Claxton, is buried. He appears to have also been a See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's, and for a very See also:short See also:time he had held the rectory of St See also:Giles in the See also:Fields. In 1642 he was ordered into custody as a delinquent; thereafter he took See also:refuge in See also:Oxford, and ultimately returned to London to the See also:house of See also:William See also:Fuller (158o?–1659), See also:dean of See also:Ely, whose daughter Jane was his second wife. In this retirement he gave himself to See also:Oriental studies and carried through his See also:great See also:work, a Polyglot See also:Bible which should be completer, cheaper and provided with a better See also:critical apparatus than any previous work of the See also:kind (see POLYGLOT). The proposals for the Polyglot appeared in 1652, and the See also:book itself came out in six great folios in 1657, having been See also:printing for five years. Nine See also:languages are used: See also:Hebrew, See also:Chaldee, Samaritan, See also:Syriac, Arabic, See also:Persian, Ethiopic, See also:Greek and Latin. Among his collaborators were See also:James Ussher, See also:John See also:Lightfoot and See also:Edward See also:Pococke, See also:Edmund See also:Castell, See also:Abraham Wheelocke and See also:Patrick See also:Young.

See also:

Thomas See also:Hyde and Thomas See also:Greaves. The great undertaking was supported by liberal subscriptions, and Walton's See also:political opinions did not deprive him of the help of the See also:Commonwealth; the See also:paper used was freed from See also:duty, and the See also:interest of Crom• well in the work was acknowledged in the See also:original See also:preface, part of which was afterwards cancelled to make way for more loyal expressions towards that restored See also:monarchy under which Oriental studies in See also:England immediately began to languish. To Walton himself, however, the See also:Reformation brought no disappointment. He was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Chester in See also:December 166o. In the following See also:spring he was one of the commissioners at the See also:Savoy See also:Conference, but took little part in the business. In the autumn of 1661 he paid a short visit to his See also:diocese, and returning to London he died on the 29th of See also:November. However much Walton was indebted to his helpers, the Polyglot Bible is a great See also:monument of See also:industry and of capacity for directing a vast undertaking, and the Prolegomena (separately reprinted by Dathe, 1777, and by See also:Francis Wranghan, 1825) show See also:judgment as well as learning. The same qualities appear in Walton's Considerator Considered (1659), a reply to the Considerations of John See also:Owen, who thought that the See also:accumulation of material for the revision of the received See also:text tended to See also:atheism. Among Walton's See also:works must also be mentioned an Introductio ad lectionem linguarum orientalium (1654; 2nd ed., 1655), meant to prepare the way for the Polyglot. See See also:Henry J. Todd, See also:Memoirs of the See also:Life and Writings of Walton (London, 1821), in 2 vols., of which the second contains a reprint of Walton's See also:answer to Owen.

End of Article: WALTON, BRIAN (1600-1661)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
WALTHER, BERNHARD (1430-15o4)
[next]
WALTON, IZAAK (1593-1683)