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William Fiddian Moulton
Portrait of Moulton in Moulton Chapel, The Leys School, Cambridge
Born	(1835-03-14)14 March 1835
Died	5 February 1898(1898-02-05) (aged 62)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Methodist Church of Great Britain minister

Rev. William Fiddian Moulton (14 March 1835 – 5 February 1898) was an English Methodist minister, Biblical scholar and educator.

Biography

William's father, James Moulton, was a Wesleyan 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, Cambridge. He remained headmaster for the rest of his life; one of the school's houses is named after him.

He was elected President of the Methodist Conference at Bristol in 1890.^[1]

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, aged sixty-two. He was interred in Histon Road Cemetery, Cambridge, and has a memorial in Wesley's Chapel, London.

In his biography, his son James 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 of the Greek New Testament, and some titles with his son James. He sat on various inter-denominational committees concerned with translations of the New Testament.

Selected writings

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  A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek by G. B. Winer, translated from the German. [1]
  


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  The Old World and the New Faith, Notes Upon the Historical Narrative Contained in the Acts of the Apostles [3]
  

Biography

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  William F. Moulton, a memoir [4] written by his two sons, William Fiddian Moulton Jr. and James Hope Moulton.

See also

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  John Fletcher Moulton, brother


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  Richard Green Moulton, brother


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  James Egan Moulton, brother


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  James Hope Moulton, son

References

Sources

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   Norgate, Gerald le Grys (1901). "Moulton, William Fiddian" . In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement​. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  


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  John Wesley's School at Kingswood by John Telford