William Fiddian Moulton - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Rev. William Moulton was an English Methodist minister, Biblical scholar and educator.

Biography

William's father, James Moulton, was a Wesleyan

Methodist Church of Great Britain

The Methodist Church of Great Britain is the largest Wesleyan Methodist body in the United Kingdom, with congregations across Great Britain . It is the United Kingdom's fourth largest Christian denomination, with around 300,000 members and 6,000 churches...

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

The Leys School

The Leys School is a co-educational Independent school, located in Cambridge, England, and is a day and boarding school for about 550 pupils aged between 11 and 18 years...

, Cambridge. He remained headmaster for the rest of his life; one of the school's houses is named after him.

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. He was interred in Histon Road Cemetery, and has a memorial in Wesley's Chapel

Wesley's Chapel

Wesley's Chapel is a chapel in London which was built by the founder of Methodism, John Wesley. The site also is now both a place of worship and a visitor attraction, incorporating the Museum of Methodism and John Wesley's House...

, London

London

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.

In his biography, his son James

James Hope Moulton

Reverend James Hope Moulton, born on 11 October 1863, and died at sea on 9 April 1917, was an English non-conformist divine.-Biography:His family had a strong Methodist background. His father was the first headmaster of the Leys School, Cambridge where James was one of the first students. After...

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

Concordance

Concordance can mean:* Concordance , a list of words used in a body of work, with their immediate contexts* Concordance , the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins...

of the Greek New Testament, and a some titles with his son James. He sat on various interdenominational committees concerned with translations of the New Testament.

Selected writings

Concordance to the Greek Testament, with Alfred Shenington Geden, Harold Keeling Moulton (ISBN Ref: 0567085716 / 0-567-08571-6)
William F. Moulton, a memoir http://books.google.com/books?id=fxZKAAAAMAAJ&dq, Written by his two sons, William Fiddian Moulton Jr. and James Hope Moulton.
The Papers of Oscar Browning
Oscar Browning
Oscar Browning was an English writer, historian, and educational reformer. His greatest achievement was the cofounding, along with Henry Sidgwick, of the Cambridge University Day Training College in 1891...

, written with James Hope Moulton http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0272%2FPP%2FOB%2F1%2F1157%2FA
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

Biography

Works

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