3-077-855 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Right Rev. R. F. Westcott, D.D., the new Bishop of Durham, 1890. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Elliott and Fry. 'New Testament Greek scholar and orthodox theologian...Dr. Brooke Foss Westcott...became an assistant master in Harrow School in 1852,...and held that post till 1869...In 1868 he became Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Peterborough; and, on leaving Harrow, was made a Canon of Peterborough Cathedral. Having, in 1870, taken his degree of D.D., he was elected Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. He was afterwards appointed one of the Queen's chaplains. As one of the Company of Revisers of the Authorised Version of the New Testament, and further in special labours of textual criticism..., the services of Dr. Westcott to Scriptural correctness are highly valued...one of his most important original works is that published in 1855, "History of the Canon of the New Testament".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.