GREENE, WILLIAM BRENTON, JR.: Presbyterian; b. at Providence, R. I., Aug. 16, 1854. He was educated at the College of New Jersey (A.B., 1876) and Princeton Theological Seminary (1880). He then held successive pastorates at the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1880-83, and at the Tenth Presbyterian Church in the same city, 1883-93. In the latter year he was appointed professor of apologetics and Christian ethics in Princeton Theological Seminary, a position which he still holds. In theology he is a strict conservative, believing firmly in the supernatural character of Christianity and the infallibility of the Bible. He has written Christian Doctrine (Philadelphia, 1905).

GREENFIELD, WILLIAM: Linguist and Biblical scholar; b. in London Apr. 1, 1799; d. there Nov. 5, 1831. He studied under two maternal uncles, business men in London, and afterward received instruction in Hebrew from a Jew in the employ of a bookbinder to whom Greenfield had been apprenticed in 1812. In 1824 he gave up business to devote himself to languages and Biblical criticism, and in 1830 he became editor of foreign versions to the British and Foreign Bible Society. During the year and a half that he was in the employ of the Society he wrote on more than twenty languages. His principal publications were: The Comprehensive Bible . . . with . . . a General Introduction . . . Notes, etc. (London, 1827); The Polymicrian Greek Lexicon to the New Testament (1829; new revised ed., 1885); A Defense of the Serampore Mahratta Version of the New Testament (1830); Novi Testamenti Grteci Tapeiov . . . ex opera E. Schmidii (1830); The New Testament, Greek and Hebrew (1831); and The Pillar of Divine Truth Im. moveably Fixed on the Foundation of the Apostles and the Prophets (1831), an abridgment from the Cony prehensive Bible.

Bibliography: DNB, x3di. 76-77.

GREENHILL, WILLIAM: English nonconformist; b. probably in Oxfordshire 1591; d. in London Sept. 27, 1671. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A., 1609; M.A., 1612) and held the Magdalen College living of New Shoreham, Sussex, from 1615 to 1633. After officiating for a time in Norwich he removed to London and became afternoon preacher at Stepney. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly and one of the so-called "dissenting brethren." In 1644 he became the first pastor of the Congregational church at Stepney, in 1649 chaplain to the children of Charles I., in 1654 one of the commissioners for approbation of public preachers, and about the same time vicar of St. Dunstan's-in-the-East. He lost this post at the Restoration in 1660, but retained his independent pastorate at Stepney till his death. His principal works are: The Axe at the Root (London, 1643), a sermon preached before the House of Commons Apr. 16, 1643; An Exposition, of the Prophet Ezekiel (5 vols., 1645-62; ed. J. Sherman,1839), one of the most celebrated Puritan commentaries, of which the first volume was dedicated to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I.; Sermons of Christ, His Discovery of Himself (1656); and The Sound-Hearted Christian (1670).

Bibliography: J. Kennedy, in Evangelical Magaxins and Missionary Chronicle, July, 1862; D. Lyson, Environs of London, vols. i., iii., 4 vols., London, 1792-96; A. g Wood, Athena: Oxonienses, ed. P. Bliss, iii. 1145, 4 vols., London, 1813-20; 8. Palmer, Nonconformist's Memorial, ii. 468, 2 vols., London, 1775-78, 3 vols., 1802-03.