Education
Oriel College.
Oriel College.
Lancelot Brenton was the second of four children of Sir Jahleel Brenton, 1st Baronet, a Vice Admiral in the British Royal Navy who was made a baronet for services to the crown. Lancelot however didn"t inherit his father"s acceptance of war. When he re-edited his father"s biography he made it clear that he was a pacifist.
He had met John Nelson Darby at Oxford in 1830.
On the death of his father in 1844, Brenton became Sir Charles. He moved to the Isle of Wight from Bath in 1849 where, although married, he died childless, the second and last Baronet of his line.
Brenton"s translation of the Septuagint was the second English translation available. lieutenant was first released in 1844 and has gone through several reprints and formats in the over a century and a half since.
