The Times/1895/Obituary/Cyprian Thomas Rust

Layout 2 In the Rev. Cyprian Thomas Rust, who died at Soham on the 8th inst., there passed away an erudite scholar, and linguist. Born early in the century, he was placed while a youth with a firm of merchants. All his leisure, however, was occupied with linguistic studies, and he arranged in parallel columns, for comparative purposes, translations of the Scriptures in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Syriac. He entered the Particular Baptist ministry in 1837, and about this time married the only daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Warren, Q.C., the author of "Ten Thousand a Year." After being ten or 11 years in the ministry, Mr. Rust resigned his charge and entered at Cambridge University, where he graduated in due course, and subsequently took orders in the Established Church. He laboured in Norwich for 20 years, and in 1875 was appointed to the rectory of Westerfield, near Ipswich, which he held until 1890. Quite recently he published a pamphlet setting forth the scope and negative character of "the Higher Criticism," which drew from Mr. Gladstone, a warm acknowledgment of its value.