[William Fiddian]. English divine and educator, born at Leek, England, in 1835; graduated M.A. of London University, being awarded the gold medal in mathematics and the prize in Scriptural examination and Biblical criticism. Entering the Wesleyan ministry, he was classical tutor in the Wesleyan Theological College, Richmond, from 1858 to 1874; headmaster of “The Leys,“ Cambridge, the new Wesleyan school (1874), making it a great success; president of the Wesleyan Conference (1890); was an active member of the New Testament Revision Committee (1870–80); after that was busy on marginal references of the revised editions. Wrote a Popular History of the English Bible (1878); Commentaries on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1879). A D.D. of Edinburgh in 1874, and an M.A. of Cambridge in 1877.
