Edward William Grinfield

Edward William Grinfield (1785–1864) was an English biblical scholar.

Life He was the son of Thomas Grinfield and Anna Joanna, daughter of Joseph Foster Barham of Bedford, and brother of Thomas Grinfield. He was a schoolfellow of Thomas de Quincey at Wingfield, Wiltshire. He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, proceeded B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, and was ordained in the same year by the Bishop of Lincoln.

After studying law at Lincoln's Inn and the Inner Temple, Grinfield became minister of Laura Chapel, Bath. It had been founded by Francis Randolph, its proprietor, in 1756. Later he moved to London, where he occasionally preached at Kensington.

In 1859 Grinfield founded and endowed a lectureship at Oxford on the Septuagint. He died at Brighton on 9 July 1864, and was buried in Hove churchyard. 1863–1865 John Day Collis 1865–1869 James Augustus Hessey 1869 William Kay 1871 Wharton Booth Marriott 1872–1874 Edward Hayes Plumptre 1876–1878 John Wordsworth 1882–1884 Edwin Hatch 1886–1890 Alfred Edersheim 1893, 1895–1897 Charles Henry Hamilton Wright 1901–1905 Henry Adeney Redpath 1905–1911 Robert Henry Charles 1920 Henry St. John Thackeray 1919–1921 George Buchanan Gray 1927–1931 Charles Harold Dodd 1935–1939 Godfrey Rolles Driver 1943–1945 Thomas Walter Manson 1945–1949 George Dunbar Kilpatrick 1961–1965 George Bradford Caird 1969–1973 Sidney Jellicoe 1996-1998 John Lowden 1998-2000 Eugene Ulrich 2005–2006 Tessa Rajak 2007–2008 Jennifer Dines 2009–2010 Anneli Aejmelaeus 2011–2012 John Lee 2013–2014 Nicholas De Lange 2020-2022 James K. Aitken