QUESTION:  Who was Dean Burgon?
   
ANSWER:  He was an outstanding 19th century Bible scholar.
   
EXPLANATION:  John William Burgon (1813-1888) was a man of tremendous 
intellect and ranks among men such as Lancelot Andrews (1555-1626) and 
Robert Dick Wilson (1856-1930) in scholarship.  He became the Dean of 
Chichester and has since been known as "Dean" Burgon.
   
Dr.  Burgon was contemporary with Westcott and Hort.  He was an 
advocate of the Textus Receptus and was the nemesis of Westcott and 
Hort's feeble arguments against it.  He believed, unlike Westcott and 
Hort, in basing all conclusions on the solid foundation of facts 
rather than the sand of theory.  He would leave no stone unturned in 
his quest for truth and no blow undelivered in his defense of it.
   
His serious scholarship, quick wit and acid tongue drove Westcott and 
Hort and all other Alexandrian scholars from the field of battle.  His 
arguments against the Alexandrian text and in favor of the last 12 
verses of Mark and other questioned portions have proven to be as 
unanswerable by modern scholarship as they were to his contemporaries.
   
Today his name is as synonymous with the defense of the King James 
Bible as the names of Hills, Fuller and Ruckman.  He is not only known 
as a champion of the Authorized Bible, but his works are an example of 
what honest, objective and thorough scholarship can produce.

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