Walter Frederic Adeney

{{Short description|English biblical scholar (1849–1920)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}}

{{Infobox academic

| honorific_prefix = The Reverend

| name = Walter Frederic Adeney

| image = Walter Frederick Adeney.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1849|03|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Ealing, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1920|09|01|1849|03|14|df=y}}

| death_place = Lewes, England

| alma_mater = New College London
University College London

| discipline = Biblical studies
Church history

}}

Walter Frederic Adeney (14 March 1849 – 1 September 1920) was an English Congregationalist minister, theologian, and biblical scholar. Born in Ealing in 1849, he was educated at New College and University College London. He served as a minister in Acton from 1872 to 1889 and became a lecturer in biblical and systematic theology at New College, London, in 1887. He was promoted to a professorship in New Testament exegesis and church history at New College in 1889, before moving to become Principal of Lancashire Independent College in Manchester in 1903.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Adeney, Walter Frederic|encyclopedia=New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge|editor-first=Samuel Macauley|editor-last=Jackson|location=Grand Rapids, Michigan|publisher=Baker Book House|year=1951|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc01.html?term=Adeney,%20Walter%20Frederic}} In addition to the numerous works he wrote on the Bible, for both academic and popular audiences, Adeney was general editor of the Century Bible Commentary, and in 1908 he published an extensive history of Eastern Christianity, The Greek and Eastern Churches.{{cite book|last=Sell|first=Alan P. F.|year=2011|title=Christ and Controversy: The Person of Christ in Nonconformist Thought and Ecclesial Experience, 1600–2000|publisher=Wipf and Stock|location=Eugene, Oregon|page=139|isbn=9781630875459|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sewhBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA139}} He retired in 1913,{{cite book|last=Sell|first=Alan P. F.|year=2006|title=Nonconformist Theology in the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHxNAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16|publisher=Wipf and Stock|location=Eugene, Oregon|page=16|isbn=9781620324226}} and died in Lewes on 1 September 1920.{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/winnipeg-free-press-sep-02-1920-p-3/|title=Eminent Church Historian Dies|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|date=2 September 1920|url-access=limited}}