Benjamin Boothroyd

Benjamin Boothroyd (1768 – 8 September 1836) was an English Independent minister and Hebrew scholar.

Born at Warley Town, in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, on 10 October 1768, Booth was the son of a shoemaker there.

In Lancashire he found work with a Methodist; and later returned to Warley to superintend his father's trade.

[1] About 1785 Boothroyd devoted himself to religion, attended prayer meetings and spoke at them; he read Philip Doddridge's works and was admitted a student of the North Howram dissenting academy.

It was brought out in quarterly parts, beginning in 1810, and finishing in 1813, under the title of Biblia Hebraica : or the Hebrew scriptures of the Old Testament, without points, after the text of Kennicott, with the chief various readings...accompanied with English notes, critical, philological, and explanatory, selected from the...Biblical critics, and formed finally two volumes, as a project taking seven years.

It contained notes, and in recognition of his achievement the university of Glasgow conferred on Boothroyd the degree of D.D.