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Greswell, Edward. An Exposition of the Parables, 5 volumes bound in six, Oxford: J. G. and F. Rivington, 1834-5; Dissertations Upon the Principles and Arrangement of an Harmony of the Gospels, 4 volumes bound in five, second edition, Oxford: University Press, 1837; A View of the Early Parisian Greek Press, 2 volumes, Oxford: [University Press], 1840; Prolegomena ad Harmoniam Evangelicam, Oxford: University Press, 1840; Harmonia Evangelica, Oxford: University Press, 1845; Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendarie, 5 volumes, Oxford: University Press, 1852; Origines Kaledariae Italicae, 5 volumes, including Preliminary Address, Oxford: University Press, 1854; Origines Kalendariae Hellenicae: or, The History of the Primitive Calendar Among the Greeks, 6 volumes, Oxford: University Press, 1862; all bound in ear matching contemporary full calf by Winstanley and others, spines gilt, rubbed; and 13 others by the same author, including seven privately published pamphlets titled 'Europae Pactores Oxonium Invisentes', v.s. (44)
Edward Greswell (1797-1869) was an English churchman and academic, known as a chronologist. The son of the Rev. William Parr Greswell (1765-1854), he was born at Denton near Manchester, on 3 August 1797. He was educated by his father and at Manchester Grammar School. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 5 April 1815, and was elected scholar in the same year. Early in 1816 he obtained the Lancashire scholarship at Corpus Christi College and graduated B.A. in 1819, M.A. in 1822, and B.D. in 1830. He was ordained deacon in 1825, and priest in 1826, and held the office of college tutor from 1822 to 1834. He was Fellow of Corpus Christi College from 1823 until his death in 1869; he held the college posts of Latin reader in 1824, junior dean 1825, Greek reader 1827, librarian 1830, and vice-president of his college from 1840 to 1869.
