HORT, FENTON JOHN ANTHONY Brit ish theologian, was born in Dublin on April 23, 1828, and was educated at Rugby school and at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he was the contemporary of E. W. Benson, B. F. Westcott and J. B. Lightfoot. The four men became lifelong friends and fellow-workers. In 185o Hort took his degree, and two years later became fellow of his college. In 1854, in conjunction with J. E. B. Mayor and Lightfoot, he established the Journal of Clas sical and Sacred Philology, and plunged into theological and patristic study. In 1857 he married, and accepted the college liv ing of St. Ippolyts, near Hitchin, Herts., where he remained. for fifteen years. In 187o he was appointed a member of the com mittee for revising the translation of the New Testament, and in 1871 he delivered the Hulsean lectures before the university. In 1872 he became fellow and lecturer at Emmanuel College; in 1878 he was made Hulsean professor of divinity, and in 1887 Lady Margaret reader in divinity. In the meantime he had pub lished, with his friend Westcott, the reconstructed Greek text of the New Testament. The Revision Committee had very largely accepted this text, even before its publication, as a basis for their translation of the NT°w Testament. The text was vehemently at tacked, but on the whole it was received as being the nearest approximation yet made to the original text of the New Testa ment (see BIBLE : New Testament, "Textual Criticism"). Hort died on Nov. 3o, 1892, worn out by intense mental labour. Next to his Greek Testament his best-known work is The Christian Ecclesia (1897).