Nathaniel Scarlett

Nathaniel Scarlett (1753–1802) was a bookseller at 349 Strand, 1799-1803. He was first a shipwright, then an accountant, and finally a bookseller at the British Theatre Warehouse in the Strand, where he published the British Theatre. He was a Methodist, but later became a Universalist, joining the dissenting congregation meeting in Parliament Court, Artillery Lane, Bishopsgate, under the American Elhanan Winchester and his successor, William Vidler (a former General Baptist), who partnered briefly with Scarlett in his bookselling business.  Scarlett’s Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek: Humbly Attempted by Nathaniel Scarlett Assisted by Men of Piety and Literature, composed with assistance from Vidler and an Anglican clergyman who was also a universalist, appeared in 1798. To Scarlett, the elect are ‘redeemed’, but all others will eventually be ‘restored’ as well.