Andrew Robert Fausset

Andrew Robert Fausset (1821–1910) was an Irish Anglican clergyman, now known as a biblical commentator. He was an evangelical preacher and author.

Born on 13 October 1821 at Silverhill, County Fermanagh, he was the son of the Rev. William Fausset by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Fausset, provost of Sligo; the family was of French origin. Educated first at Dungannon Royal School, he obtained a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin in 1838. Gaining prizes and awards there, he graduated B.A. in 1843 (senior moderator in classics), and won the vice-chancellor's Latin verse prize both that year and in 1844. He obtained the divinity testimonium (second class) in 1845, and graduated M.A. in 1846, proceeding B.D. and D.D. in 1886.

On graduating, Fausset became an academic coach at Trinity. He was ordained deacon in 1847 and priest in 1848 by Edward Maltby, the Bishop of Durham, and served from 1847 to 1859 as curate of Bishop Middleham, a Durham colliery village. From 1859 until his death he was rector of the parish of St Cuthbert's Church, York.

In 1885 Fausset was made a prebendary of York Minster. He died at York on 8 February 1910.

Fausset wrote much on biblical prophecy. He was a co-author of the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary, with Robert Jamieson and David Brown. This work appeared in six volumes, from 1864 to 1870, and then had numerous full or abridged editions. Fausset's share in this Critical, Experimental and Practical Commentary was volumes iii., iv., (Job to Malachi) and vi (I Corinthians to Revelation). His other religious publications were:

Fausset also translated into English Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament (1857), with notes and a life of Bengel. As a classical scholar, he produced editions of:

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