John William Burgon

John William Burgon (1813–1888) was an English clergyman and biblical scholar, Dean of Chichester from 1876. Born in Smyrna, he came late to Oxford, won the Newdigate Prize in 1845 with Petra, remembered for its line about a rose-red city half as old as time,. A combative defender of the traditional text of the New Testament, he wrote The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel according to St. Mark and The Revision Revised, his attack on the Revised Version of 1881 and the theories of Westcott and Hort, and opposed the admission of women to university lectures.