FIELD, FREDERICK: Church of England; b. in London July 20, 1801; d. at Norwich Apr. 19, 1885. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1823), and from 1824 to 1843 was fellow of his college. He was ordained priest in 1828, and was rector of Reepham, Norfolk, 1842-63, resigning that he might be able to devote himself entirely to his edition of the fragments of Origen's Hexapla, a work the erudition of which is universally recognized. He was elected an honorary fellow of Trinity College in 1875 and was a member of the British Old Testament Revision Company. In theology he avoided both the Evangelical and ritualistic extremes. He edited the Greek text of Chrysostom's homilies on Matthew (3 vols., Cambridge, 1839) and on all the Pauline Epistles (7 vols., Oxford, 1849-62); Isaac Barrow's Treatise on the Pope's Su premacy (London, 1851); J. E. Grebe's text of the Septuagint (Oxford, 1859); and Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt (2 vols., 1867-74); and wrote Otium Norvicense (3 parts, 1864-86; the third part, Notes on select Passages of the Greek Testament, reprinted with additions by the author and edited by A. M. Knight, 1897). He also collaborated on Payne Smith's Thesaurus Syriacus.

Bibliography: His autobiography is in the preface to his edition of Origen's Hexapla. Consult W. Aldis Wright, in Cambridge Review, May 6, 1885; DNB, xviii. 402-404..

FIELD, HENRY MARTYN: Presbyterian; b. at Stockbridge, Mass., Apr. 3, 1822; d. there Dec. 29, 1907. He studied at Williams College (B.A., 1838), East Windsor Hill (now Hartford) Theological Seminary (1838-41), and Yale Divinity School (1841-42), and was pastor at St. Louis, Mo.(1842-47), and West Springfield, Mass (1850-b4). From 1854 to 1900 he was editor and proprietor of The Evangelist, a Presbyterian weekly, published in New York City. His travel-sketches enjoyed great repute. His published works include: The Irish Confederates, and the Rebellion of 1798 (New York, 1851); Summer Pictures from Copenhagen to Venice (1859); History of the Atlantic Telegraph (1866); From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn (1876); From Egypt to Japan (1877); On the Desert; with Review of Events in Egypt (1883); Among the Holy Hills (1884); The Greek Islands and Turkey after the War (1885); Blood Thicker than Water: A Few Days among our Southern Brethren (1886); Old and New Spain (1888); Gibraltar (1889); Bright Skies and Dark Shadows (1890); The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph (1893); and The Life of David Dudley Field (1898).