Fenton John Anthony Hort

HORT, Fenton John Anthony. b. Dublin, 23 April 1828; d. Cambridge, 30 November 1892. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1851). He became a Fellow of Trinity College, and took Holy Orders (deacon 1852, priest 1854). On his marriage in 1857 he resigned his Fellowship, and was appointed to a rural parish near Hitchin. He returned to Cambridge in 1872 as Fellow and Tutor of Emmanuel College, and was appointed Hulsean Professor of Divinity in 1878. With Brooke Foss Westcott, he produced an edition of The New Testament in the Original Greek (1881). He was also a member, from 1870 of the New Testament Revision Company which produced the ‘Revised Version’ of 1881...