William Fiddian Moulton

Rev. William Fiddian Moulton. Portrait in Moulton Chapel, Leys School, Cambridge

Rev. William 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.

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. He was interred in Histon Road Cemetery, 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 a some titles with his son James. He sat on various interdenominational committees concerned with translations of the New Testament.

Selected writings

• Concordance to the Greek Testament, with Alfred Shenington Geden, Harold Keeling Moulton (ISBN Ref: 0567085716 / 0-567-08571-6)
• William F. Moulton, a memoir [1], Written by his two sons, William Fiddian Moulton Jr. and James Hope Moulton.
• The Papers of Oscar Browning, written with James Hope Moulton [2]
• The Story of the Manchester Mission
• The Old World and the New Faith, Notes Upon the Historical Narrative Contained in the Acts of the Apostles

See also

• John Fletcher Moulton, brother
• Richard Green Moulton, brother
• James Egan Moulton, brother

References

• John Wesley's School at Kingswood by John Telford

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Name	Moulton, William Fiddian
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Short description	English Methodist minister, Biblical scholar and educator
Date of birth	1835-03-14
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Date of death	1898-02-05
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