TREGELLES, T6-01e, SAMUEL PRIDEAUX (1813-75). An English scholar and New Testa meat critic, born at Falmouth, of Quaker parent age. Though be attended the Falmouth Classical School for four years (1S25-2S). he was in the main a self-educated man. During the greater part of his life he was connected with the Plym outh Brethren, hut in his last years he was in the communion of the Established Church. Tregelles's interest in critical studies began early. and from 1838 to his death he devoted himself almost exclusively to the study of the New Testament text and related subjects. In 1844 he published The Book of Revelation in Greek, Edited from Ancient Authorities with a New English Version. In 1854 his valuable in Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament appeared. This work was not only a history, but a discussion of principles of textual criticism as well, and as such is still of great value. His next important work was his revision of the New Testament part of Ilorne's Introduction under the title, An Introduction to the Textual Criticism, of the New Testament (1856). During all these years he was assiduously collecting material for a new critical edition of the Greek Testament, collating manuscripts, examining patristic readings and the important ancient versions with greatest care. The first part of Tregelles's Greek; Yea:
Testament, Edited from Ancient Authorities, appeared in 1557. The last installment was pub lished in 1872, sent out while the author was suffering from the severe illness which proved fatal not long after. Among numerous other writings not directly connected with the New Testament text his facsimile edition of the Canon Muratorianus (1860) and his transla tion of Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon (1847) de serve mention. Tregelles's scholarship was exact and painstaking, and his industry was remark able. His edition of the Greek Testament ranks with those of Tischendorf and of Westcott and Hort, as one of the three great critical editions of the last century. His principles, clearly worked out and consistently applied. were simi lar to those of Lachmann, but his reconstructed text was based on a wither and more thorough survey of the field of evidence than was Lach mann's. An Appendix to Tregelles's Greek Testa ment, edited by Hort and Streane, from Tregelles's own papers was published in 1879.