WESTCOTT, westic6t, Brooke Foga, Eng lish bishor and theologian: b. Birmingham, January 1825; d. Bishop Auckland, 27July 1901. He was graduated from Trinity Cole, Cambridge, in 1848, was elected a Fellow of his college in 1849 and in 1851 was ordained in the English Church. He was assistant master at Harrow 1852-69, and here he remained till 1869, when he became a residentiary canon of Peter. borough. He became canon of Westminster in 1883 and on the death of his friend, Lightfoot, bishop of Durham, was appointed his successor in 1890, and in this see he remained until his death. He showed a deep interest in the lot of the miners in his diocese, which won him their genuine esteem, and he was very successful in preventing and settling industrial disputes. From 1870 to 1890 he was regius professor of divinity at Cambridge and during his tenure of the office exercised a powerful and abiding in fluence on undergraduates and scholars. As a scholar and theologian position was a very high one. As a textual critic he is best known for his share in the revision of the Greek text of the New Testament, which occu pied him and J. F. A. Hort for 28 years, and
resulted in the publication of their important work, 'The New Testament in the Original Greek,' in 1:.:1. The text formed the bests of the Revised Version of the New Testament His other published works include 'General Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament During the First Four Cen thries' (1855), which has gone through many editions; 'Introduction to the Study of the Gospels' (1860); 'A General View of the His tory of the English Bible' (1868); 'The Para graph Psalter' (1879); 'The Revelation of the Risen Lord' (1882); 'Social Aspects of Chris tianity' (1887)- 'Essays in the History of Religious Thought in the West' (1891); 'The Gospel of Life' (1892); 'The Incarnation and Common Life' (1893); 'Lessons of the Re vised Version of the New Testament' (1894); 'Christian Aspects of Life' (1895) ; 'Lessons from \\'ork' (1901), and 'Words of Faith and Hope' (1902). He was one of the New Testa ment revision company. Consult 'Life,' by his son