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Anthony Byatt
Born(1928-02-23)February 23, 1928
London
DiedSeptember 17, 2014(2014-09-17) (aged 86)
Malvern, Worcestershire
Occupation(s)postcard publisher, photographer, Bible collector, antiquarian, publisher, editor, writer
Organization(s)Golden Age Books, International Society of Bible Collectors
MovementJehovah's Witnesses
SpouseSue
Children2
Websitegoldenagebooks.org

Anthony "Tony" Byatt (February 23, 1928–September 17, 2014)[1] was an English postcard publisher, photographer and writer. Byatt's works cover a broad range of subjects: reproduction of historical photographs and picture postcards,[2][3][4], Bible translation,[5] New Testament metaphors,[6] water systems and population of Jerusalem,[7][8][9] human body and clothing.[10]

Religious activity[edit]

Byatt joined Jehovah's Witnesses in c. 1939.[11] He had become an ordained minister within the denomination by 1956.[12] Apart from preaching, his activity included collecting books for the library of the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead with future Governing Body member Albert Schroeder.[13]

He published a book on the interpretation of New Testament metaphors in 1995.[6]

In 2004, Byatt and other Jehovah's Witness writers published the anthology 'Your Word is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953), which included essays defending the New World Translation against criticism from non-Witnesses and a bibliography of works on the translation.[5] The work was published by the publishing company Golden Age Books, which Byatt directed and which was based in his residency in Malvern. The website of the company continues to be maintained after his death.[14]

Byatt was also a member of the International Society of Bible Collectors and an Associate Editor of Bible Collectors' World.[14]

Private life[edit]

Byatt was married to his wife and had two children.[14] He died in 2014.

Bibliography[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Byatt, Anthony (1974). Picture Postcards and Their Publishers: An Illustrated Account Identifying Britain's Major Postcard Publishers 1894 to 1939 and the Great Variety of Cards They Issued. London: Golden Age Postcards. ISBN 978-0-9506212-0-3. OCLC 641778625.
  • ———— (1982). Collecting Picture Postcards: An Introduction. ISBN 978-0-9506212-1-0.
  • ———— (1995). New Testament Metaphors: Illustrations in Word and Phrase. Pentland Press. ISBN 978-1-85821-239-5.
  • ———— (1997). Building a Theocratic Library. Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. ISBN 978-0-95062-123-4.
  • ————; Flemings, Hal, eds. (2004). 'Your Word Is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953). Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. ISBN 978-0-9506212-9-6.
  • ———— (2012). Reminiscences Towards a History of Jehovah's Witness in London–1881 to 1977. Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. ISBN 978-0-95577-504-8.

Articles[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Mr Anthony Byatt in the England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2022". ancestry. Retrieved May 4, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Twyman 2018, p. 764.
  3. ^ Samuel 2012, p. 347.
  4. ^ Gillen 2023, p. 35.
  5. ^ a b Williams 2006.
  6. ^ a b Lim 2017, p. 6.
  7. ^ Ong 2015, p. 165.
  8. ^ Wilkinson 1974, p. 51.
  9. ^ Spigel 2012, p. 79.
  10. ^ Sandnes 2002, p. 5.
  11. ^ Byatt, Anthony; Flemings, Hal, eds. (2004). 'Your Word is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953). Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-9506212-9-6. On the Elder's remark, we would ask Lundquist, what about Jehovah's Witnesses before the NWT was published in 1950; did they not have a faith in Jehovah then? Of course they did! I myself was a Witness for eleven years before 1950, and the NWT did not change my faith, for it is the Hebrew Scriptures which fully establish so much about Jehovah.
  12. ^ "Ordained Ministers Appointed to Special Service". 1956 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses. Brooklyn: Watch Tower Society. 1955. p. 49.
  13. ^ Byatt, Anthony (1997). "Introduction". Building a Theocratic Library. Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-9506212-9-6. When I lived in London, I sometimes had the privilege of going round the bookshops with Brother Bert Schroeder when he was on a visit, looking for books for Gilead. By 1962 Gilead had some 10,000 volumes
  14. ^ a b c "Welcome to Golden Age Books". Golden Age Books. Retrieved May 4, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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