William Emery Barnes

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Emery Barnes

FRSE
Born
William Emery Barnes

(1859-05-26)26 May 1859
Died17 August 1939(1939-08-17) (aged 80)
Spouse(s)
Georgina de Horne
(m. 1890)
Academic background
Alma materPeterhouse, Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline
Institutions

William Emery Barnes FRSE (1859–1939) was an English academic,[1] most notably Hulsean Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1901 until 1934.[2]

Education[]

Barnes was educated at Islington Proprietary School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Career[]

He was ordained in 1884 and served his title at St John's Church, Waterloo. He was a Lecturer in Hebrew at Clare College, Cambridge from 1885 to 1894; and in Divinity at Peterhouse, Cambridge from 1889 to 1901. He was Dean of Peterhouse from 1920 to 1921; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Peterborough from 1920 to 1927; and Canon Theologian of Leicester from 1932 until his death.[3]

Publications[]

  • Canonical and Uncanonical Gospels, 1893
  • The Peshitta Text of Chronicles, 1897
  • The Psalms in the Peshitta Version, 1904
  • Lex in Corde (studies in the Psalter), 1910
  • Early Christians at Prayer, 1925
  • The Forgivenesses of Jesus Christ, 1936

References[]

  1. ^ 'Deaths' Saturday, Aug. 19, 1939 The Times Issue: 48388
  2. ^ "Barnes, William Emery". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 December 2020. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1938 p66: Oxford; OUP; 1938

External links[]

Academic offices
Preceded by
Herbert Edward Ryle
Hulsean Professor of Divinity
1887–1901
Succeeded by
Francis Crawford Burkitt


Retrieved from ""