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The accuracy and value of SPT’s magnum opus was hugely dependent on the loyal work of William Chalk, his long-time friend and proofreader. When Chalk’s eyesight seemed in peril SPT’s apprehensions about his own health were accentuated and he consulted a London physician, Joseph Kidd. Stricken with a second attack of paralysis in early 1870, at first his thinking and speech were not affected but the final stages of his work were now supervised by others and his decline was inexorable. He died in April 1875. Never a man of ostentation, SPT’s achievement has received fewer plaudits than the work of Tischendorf but may have been more enduring in its entirety.
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- 1.
The Bookseller (3 April 1878): 296. In Wigram’s appreciative words, it was ‘W. Chalk, with whom the correction of the press has chiefly rested’. The Englishman’s Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament …, 3rd ed. (London: Bagster, 1866), vii.
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S.P. Tregelles, Greek New Testament Part II: Luke and John (London: Bagster, 1860), iv.
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In the census returns, William Chalk is variously identified as a ‘press corrector’ (1841), a ‘merchant’s Book Keeper’ (1851) with Walton and Maberley and finally as a ‘bookseller’.
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W. Kidd, Joseph Kidd 1824–1918: Limerick, London, Blackheath: A Memoir (priv. printed 1920). For Kidd’s Brethren sympathies see ‘Septima’ [Grace Guinness], Peculiar People (London: Heath Cranton, 1935), 53. SPT’s Plymouth physician, Dr. Square, was an alumnus of Regents Park Baptist College.
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What is now the Hilton London Paddington Hotel was built in the early 1850s to serve travellers on the Great Western Railway, like SPT coming from Plymouth.
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SPT, (Plymouth, 26 July 1869), to B.W. Newton (Manchester/JRUL/CBA 7181 [108]).
- 7.
Cambridge MA/AHTL, Prideaux, MS Life [p. 35].
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Ibid. [p. 35].
- 9.
O. von Gebhardt, ‘Bibeltext des N.T’ in Herzog, Real-Enzyklopädie … 1896; cited by Philip Schaff, A Companion to the Greek Testament and the English Version, 3rd ed. (New York: Harper & Bros, 1889), 265.
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W. Milligan, ‘Tischendorf and Tregelles as Editors of the Greek New Testament,’ British and Foreign Evangelical Review 25 (January 1876): 120.
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Ibid., 132.
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‘Tregelles on the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament,’ Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository 12 (July 1855): 645.
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J.W. Burgon, The Revision Revised. Three Articles reprinted from the ‘Quarterly Review’ … to which is added a Reply to Bishop Ellicott’s Pamphlet in defence of the Revisers and their Greek Text of the New Testament … (London: Murray, 1881), 22.
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Stunt, T.C.F. (2020). A Muted Finale. In: The Life and Times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles. Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32266-3_13
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