Kennicott

Kennicott, Benjamin, Canon, D.D., was born in a humble station in 1718. His youthful abilities found patrons, who sent him to Exeter College, Oxford, where he soon made himself a name for biblical scholarship. He wrote in 1753 a treatise pointing out the imperfections of the Hebrew texts of the Scriptures, and money was raised to enable him to revise the Old Testament. This task occupied his whole life, for he brought out his book in 1776 and died in 1783, having collected between six and seven hundred manuscripts.