Samuel Gosnell Green

Samuel Gosnell Green (20 December 1822 – 15 September 1905) was an English Baptist minister, educator, author, and bibliophile.{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Green, Samuel Gosnell|pages=153–155}}{{cite book|author=Brackney, William H.|title=The A to Z of the Baptists|chapter=Green, Samuel Gosnell (1822–1905)|year=2009|page=264|isbn=9780810870710|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BgfzHyve0T4C&pg=PA264}}

Born in Falmouth, Cornwall, Green was the eldest son among the nine children of a Baptist minister and was sent to a private school in Camberwell. After leaving school, he worked in the printing office of John Haddon in Finsbury and then as a tutor until the age of nineteen. He matriculated in 1840 at the Baptist College, Stepney to prepare for the Baptist ministry and graduated in 1843 with a B.A. from the University of London.

{{blockquote|He served two churches, High Wycombe (1845–1847) and Tauton (1947–1851), before taking a position at the Yorkshire Baptist College (Rawdon) as tutor in classics (1851–1863). In 1863, Green became principal at the college, serving until 1876.}}

{{blockquote|In 1876 Green came to London to serve as editor, and in 1881 as editorial secretary, of the Religious Tract Society. Thenceforth his main energies were devoted to literary work, in which towards the end of his long life he was aided by his elder son, Prof. S. W. Green. His most important work was his Handbook to the Grammar of the Greek Testament, published in 1870 (revised editions in 1880, 1885, 1892, and 1904), which was followed in 1894 by a primer which had also a wide circulation. A companion volume on the Hebrew of the Old Testament appeared in 1901.}}

Green was the editorial secretary of the Religious Tract Society until 1891. In 1900 the University of St Andrews bestowed upon him the honorary degree of D.D. He was the author of eighteen books.

He married in 1848. His wife died in May 1905 shortly before he died in September 1905 in Streatham. There were three sons and a daughter from the marriage.

Selected publications

Biblical and Theological Dictionary. 1840.
{{cite book |title=Religious hindrances to religious revival |year=1845}}
{{cite book |title=The working-classes of Great Britain, their present condition, &c. |year=1850}}
{{cite book |title=Clerical subscription and national morality (Bicentenary Lectures) |year=1862}}
{{cite book |title=Handbook to the grammar of the Greek Testament |year=1870}} [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009011436 Revised and improved edition, 1886]
{{cite book |title=Bible sketches and their teachings, for young people |year=1871}}
with illustrations by English and foreign artists: {{cite book |title=French pictures drawn with pen and pencil |year=1878}}
with illustrations by Samuel Manning: {{cite book |title=English pictures drawn with pen and pencil |year=1879}}
{{cite book |title=What do I believe? |year=1880}} (Welsh translation, 1882)
reviser of {{cite book |title=Harmony of the four Gospels in the words of the Authorised Version |year=1890 |url=https://archive.org/details/harmonyoffourgos00davi}}
{{cite book |title=The Psalms of David and modern criticism |year=1893}}
{{cite book |title=A brief introduction to New Testament Greek with vocabularies and exercises |year=1894 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012256818}}
{{cite book |title=The Christian creed and the creeds of Christendom; seven lectures delivered in 1898 at Regent's Park College, London |year=1898}}
{{cite book |title=The story of the Religious Tract Society for one hundred years |year=1899 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001936325}}
{{cite book |title=Handbook to Old Testament Hebrew |year=1901 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009794045}}
with Joseph Angus: {{cite book |title=The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture |year=1904}}
{{cite book |title=Handbook of Church History |year=1904}}

References

External links

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