Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton
- Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton
Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1807 - 1862) [Dobree, Paul [http://www.careyroots.com/PS06/PS06_045.htm] , (Accessed 2007.7.3)] was the son of Sir Jahleel Brenton. Lancelot was the second of four children and his key claim to fame was as the translator of one of only two English translations of the Septuagint. His father, Jahleel, was a Vice Admiral in the British Navy and a contemporary of Nelson. Jahleel was later made a Baronet for services to the crown. It was this title that Lancelot Brenton inherited. Lancelot however didn't inherit his father's acceptance of war, when he re-edited his father's memoirs he made it clear that he was a pacifist. [Embley, Peter L. "The Origins and Early Development of the Plymouth Brethren" p66 notes " [http://www.bruederbewegung.de/pdf/embley.pdf] ", (Accessed 2007.7.3)]
He trained for ministry at Oriel College and was ordained by the Church of England in 1830. [ibid p20] He had left the established church by December 1831 to found an independent chapel in Bath with a friend, William Moreshead. [ibid, p22.] He had met Darby at Oxford in 1830. [ibid] By 1835 this chapel was associated with the Brethren and by 1837 Lancelot was contributing to "The Christian Witness", an early Brethren journal, and appears to have cemented his relationship with the emerging Brethren movement. [ibid]
On the death of his father in 1844, Lancelot became Sir Charles [ibid, p23] . He moved to the Isle of Wight from Bath in 1849 [ibid] where, although married, he died childless, the second and last Baronet of his line. [Dobree, Paul [http://www.careyroots.com/PS06/PS06_444.htm] , (Accessed 2007.7.3)]
At time of writing, his translation of the Septuagint was the second and the latest English translation available. [Pietersma, A [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~pietersm/nets.html] , (Accessed 2007.7.3)] It was first released in 1844 and has gone through several reprints and formats in the over a century and a half since. [IOSCS, [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ioscs/brenton/] , (Accessed 2007.7.4)]
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