GRELLET, grel"15', STEPHEN (Etienne de Grellet du Xabillier): Missionary of the Society of Friends; b. at Limoges (88 m. w. of Clermont), France, Nov. 2, 1773; d. at Burlington, N. J., Nov. 16, 1855. The son of a wealthy French nobleman, he attended the military college at Lyons and at seventeen en tered the body-guard of Louis XVI. During the Revolution he and his brothers were captured and sentenced to be shot. He escaped to Demerara in 1793, came to New York in 1795, and joined the So ciety of Friends. He preached extensively in the United States and Canada, also in Haiti, and made four visits to Europe, preaching in England, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Greece, and Italy. He enlisted the friendship of Alexander I. of F assia and induced him to introduce into the Russian schools Biblical selections prepared by himself and his friend, W. Allen. He also preached before Pope Pius VII. and urged Protestantism upon him. In 1834, on his return from a three years' tour of Europe, he retired to Burlington. On his missionary journeys he scrupulously de frayed all his expenses, being enabled to do so through successful business ventures in New York City.
Bibliography: B. Seebohm, Memoirs of Stephen Grellet, Philadelphia, 1868.
GRENFELL, BERNARD PYNE: Church of Eng land layman; b. at Birmingham Dec. 16, 1869. He was educated at Clifton College and Queen's College, Oxford, where he bas been fellow since 1894, having already been Craven Fellow in 1893 1894. Since 1895 he bas been excavator and joint editor to the Greco-Roman branch of the Egypt Exploration Fund (q.v.), and in this capacity has dis covered papyri of the utmost importance, including the famous Logic Jesu. He has edited Revenue Laws of Ptolemy PhaTadelphus (Oxford, 1896); An Alex andrian Erotic Fragment and other Greek Papyri, chiefly Ptolemaic (1896); Uncanonical Gospel (1907) and, in collaboration with A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and other Greek and Latin Papyri (Ox ford, 1897); Sayings of Our Lord (1897); Menander's Georgos (1897); The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (5 parts, London, 1898-1907); Fayum Towns and their Papyri (1900); The Amherst Papyri (2 parts, 1899-1900); The Tebtunia Papyri (2 parts, 1902-07); Greek Papyri in the Cairo Museum (Cairo, 1903); New Sayings of Jesus and a Fragment of a Lost Gospel (London, 1904); The Hitch Papyri, i. (1906).
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