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E. B. Brenton

Best known for the classic English translation of the Septuagint, this 19th-century scholar and clergyman helped make an important ancient text accessible to generations of readers. His work remained widely used for well over a century.

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Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review

Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review

by E. B. Brenton

About the author

Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1807–1862), often listed on older editions as E. B. Brenton, was a British scholar, Church of England clergyman, and baronet. He studied at Oriel College, Oxford, graduated in 1828, and was ordained in 1830.

He is chiefly remembered for translating the Septuagint into English. His The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament was first published in 1844, with later editions expanding the work and helping establish it as a standard public-domain English version for many readers interested in the Greek Old Testament and Apocrypha.

Brenton also edited a memoir of his father, Vice Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton. Sources on his life are fairly brief, but they consistently point to a serious religious scholar whose translation work gave him a lasting place in biblical publishing and study.