GREENLAND, MISSIONS IN. See Egede, Hans.

GREENUP, ALBERT WILLIAM: Church of England; b. at London June 5, 1866. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1890; M.A., 1893). He has been chaplain to the earl of Cadogan since 1893, and was rector of Alburgh, Norfolk, from 1897 to 1899, when he was appointed principal of the London College of Divinity, St. John's Hall, Highbury, becoming also Macneil pro-

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fessor of Biblical exegesis in the following year. He was public examiner at the University of Cambridge in 1898-99, and has been prodean of the faculty of theology in the University of London and a member of the board of theological studies since 1901, as well as examiner in Hebrew, Greek Testament, and Aramaic since 1903 and in ecclesiastical history since 1905. In theology he belongs to the Evangelical school of the Church of England. He has written Short Commentary on Lamentations (Hertford, 1893); Marginal References to the Revised Version (Oxford, 1898); Forms of Absolution (London, 1901); and Commentary on Micah (1903), in addition to translating the Targum on Lamentations (Sheffield, 1893) and editing the commentary of Tobiah hen Eliezer on the same book (Hertford, 1896).

GREENWOOD, JOHN: English Separatist; he studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (B.A., 1581), and took orders in the Church of England, but in 1586 was arrested for holding a private conventicle in London. He was released, again arrested, and held in prison for more than four years. In 1592, with Francis Johnson (q.v.), he organized the first society of the Separatists in London and became its "teacher." He was arrested Dec., 1592, tried and condemned with his friend, Henry Barrow (q.v.), for publishing seditious books, and the two were hanged at Tyburn Apr. 6, 1593. He wrote several works, most of them in collaboration with Barrow.

Bibliography: H. M. Dexter, Conprrapationaliam of the Last Three Hundred Years, New York, 1880; W. Walker, Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism, p. 30, n. 1, New York, 1893; DNB, xljii. 84-85.

GREER, DAVID HUMMELL: Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York; b. at Wheeling, W. Va., Mar. 20, 1844. He was educated at Washington College, Pa. (A.B., 1862), and the Gambier Theological Seminary, Gambier, O. (1866). He was rector of Grace Church, Providence, R. I., 1871-88, and of St. Bartholomew's, New York City, 1888-1904. In 1904 he was consecrated bishop coadjutor of New York, becoming bishop in 1908. He has written The Historic Christ (New York, 1890); From Things to God (1893); The Preacher and his Place (1895); and Visions (1898).