William Fiddian Moulton

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.

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.

• A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek by G. B. Winer, translated from the German. [1]
• Concordance to the Greek Testament, with Alfred Shenington Geden [2], (subsequently revised by his grandson Harold Keeling Moulton, ISBN 0 567 08571 6)
• William F. Moulton, a memoir [3] written by his two sons, William Fiddian Moulton Jr. and James Hope Moulton.
• The Papers of Oscar Browning, written with James Hope Moulton [4]
• 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 [5]