Alexander Kirkpatrick

Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick (25 June 1849 - 22 January 1940) was Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University (1882 - 1903) and the third Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge (1898 - 1907).

Memorial to Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick in Ely Cathedral

Life

Kirkpatrick was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]

He also served as Canon of Ely (1882 - 1903), Dean of Ely [2] (1906 -1936), Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester (1895 - 1903) and General Editor for Old Testament and Apocrypha of the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (1892 - 1929),[3] to which he contributed the commentaries on 1 and 2 Samuel and the Psalms.[4] In his introduction to the book of Psalms, he observed that "they repeat the whispers of the Spirit of God, they reflect the very light of the Eternal Wisdom".[5]

References

1. "Kirkpatrick, Alexander Francis (KRKK867AF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. Cambridgeshire History On The Net
3. Richard Zuelch: Reiterations: Meditations Old and New on Christianity
4. Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: List of Volumes, Authors, and Dates, accessed 5 August 2017
5. Kirkpatrick, A. F. (1906), The Book of Psalms, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges series, accessed 27 September 2018