Frederick Henry Scrivener, an English clergyman, born at Bermondsey, Surrey, Sept. 29, 1813. He graduated at Trinity college, Cambridge, in 1835, was appointed assistant master of the king's school, Sherborne, and in 1839 became curate of Sandford Orcas, Somerset. In 1846 he was appointed head master of Falmouth school, and since 1861 has been rector of Gerrans, Cornwall. In 1870 he was chosen one of the company of revisers of the authorized version of the New Testament. His publications include "A Supplement to the Authorized Version of the New Testament" (1845); "A Collation of about Twenty Manuscripts of the Greek Testament deposited in England" (1853); "Contributions to the Criticism of the New Testament, being the Introduction to the Codex Augiensis and Fifty other Manuscripts" (1859); Novum Testa-mentum Groecum, text of Stephens of 1550, with various readings of Beza, Tischendorf, Tregelles, etc. (1860; new ed., 1867); "Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (1861); "Full Collation of the Codex Sinaiticus with the Received Text of the New Testament, with Critical Introduction" (1863); and "Bezae Codex Cantabri-giensis, 1581, edited with Prolegomena, Notes, and Facsimiles" (1864).