Rev. J. Birrill, Professor of Oriental Languages, St Andrews, Scotland.
Rev. T. K. Cheyne, Hebrew Lecturer, Balliol College, Oxford.
Dr. G. Douglas, Professor of Hebrew, Free Church College, Glasgow.
Mr. S. R Driver, Tutor of New College, Oxford.
Rev. J. D. Geden, Professor of Hebrew, Wesleyan College, Didsbury.
Rev. J. R. Lumby, Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge.[126]
Rev. A. H. Sayce, Tutor of Queen’s College, Oxford.
Rev. W. Robertson Smith, Professor of Hebrew, Free Church College, Aberdeen.
Dr. D. H. Weir, Professor of Oriental Languages, Glasgow.
Dr. W. Wright, Professor of Arabic, Cambridge.
During the same period it has lost ten members, seven by death: Professor Davies, Professor Fairbairn, Professor McGill, Archdeacon Rose, Canon Selwyn, Bishop Thirlwall, Professor Weir; and three by resignation--Canon Jebb, Professor Plumptre, and Bishop Wordsworth.
The New Testament Company has undergone less change. Four members have been added--
Dr. David Brown, Professor of Divinity, Free Church College, Aberdeen.
Rev. Edwin Palmer, Professor of Latin, Oxford.[127]
Dr. Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrews.
Four also have been removed--Dean Alford, Dr. Eadie, and Bishop Wilberforce by death, Dean Merivale by resignation.
The first chairman of the Old Testament Company was Bishop Thirlwall. Upon his resignation of the office in 1871 Dr. Harold Browne, then Bishop of Ely, now Bishop of Winchester, was appointed to succeed him, and has continued to hold the office until now. Dr. Ellicott, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, has from the first presided over the New Testament Company.
The Old Testament Company appointed one of their own number, Mr. Aldis Wright, to act as their secretary, taking the minutes of their proceedings, and conducting all needful correspondence. The New Testament Company deemed it better to assign this office to one who was not himself burthened with the responsibilities of the revision, and they were happily able to secure the efficient services of the Rev. John Troutbeck, M.A., one of the Minor Canons of Westminster Abbey.
It will be seen that of the sixty-five English scholars who have taken part in this work forty-one have been members of the Church of England, and twenty-four members of other churches. Of the latter number two represent the Episcopal Church of Ireland, one the Episcopal Church of Scotland, four the Baptists, three the Congregationalists, five the Free Church of Scotland, five the Established Church of Scotland, one the United Presbyterians, one the Unitarians, and two the Wesleyan Methodists.