Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, 13th Baronet

Sir Edwyn Clement Hoskyns, 13th Baronet, MC (9 August 1884 – 28 June 1937) was an English Anglican priest and theologian.

The Reverend Sir Edwyn Hoskyns Bt MC
Born	Edwyn Clement Hoskyns 9 August 1884 London, England
Died	28 June 1937 (aged 52) London, England
Spouse(s)	Mary Trym Budden ​ (m. 1922)​ [1]
Parent(s)	Edwyn Hoskyns Mary Maude
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Anglican)
Church	Church of England
Ordained	1908 (deacon)[1] ? (priest)
Academic background
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge
Influences	Karl Barth[2] Gerhard Kittel[3]
Academic work
Discipline	Biblical studies theology
Sub-discipline	Biblical theology
School or tradition	Anglo-Catholicism[4]
Institutions	Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Influenced	C. K. Barrett Christopher Evans Gabriel Hebert Donald Lynch Michael Ramsey Edward Roberts[5]

Career

Hoskyns was born on 9 August 1884 in Notting Hill, London, the eldest child and only son of Bishop Edwyn Hoskyns and his wife Mary Constance Maude Benson.[1] He was a fellow and Dean of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,[1] and a notable biblical scholar. On his father's death in 1925, he succeeded to the Hoskyns baronetcy. His influence on the next generation of clergymen was considerable, e.g., on Michael Ramsey,[6][7] Gabriel Hebert, Christopher Evans,[8][9] Donald Lynch,[10] and C. K. Barrett.[11]

Hoskyns served in the Great War as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces. He was commissioned in July,1915, and served in Egypt and France. He was described as ‘A capable chaplain. Hard worker. Has made a good SCF ( Senior Chaplain to the Forces).’ [12] He was awarded the Military Cross, ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Under heavy shell fire he personally placed wounded in a safe place, and was solely responsible from preventing them falling into the hands of the enemy. He remained with them until all had been evacuated, being slightly wounded himself. Next day he showed conspicuous courage in tending wounded in an exposed position under heavy shell and machine-gun fire for nine hours without a break.’ [13]

He died on 28 June 1937 in London and was buried in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire.[1]

Writings

• The Riddle of the New Testament. With Francis Noel Davey. London: Faber & Faber, 1931
• The Epistle to the Romans, by Karl Barth; translated from the 6th edition by Edwyn C. Hoskyns. Oxford University Press, 1933
• Cambridge Sermons. London: SPCK, 1938
• The Fourth Gospel. London: Faber & Faber, 1940
• Crucifixion-Resurrection: The Pattern of the Theology and Ethics of the New Testament. Edwyn Clement Hoskyns & Francis Noel Davey. London: SPCK, 1981.

Arms

Coat of arms of Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, 13th Baronet

Crest Out of a ducal coronet a lion's head erased Or with flames of fire out of his mouth Proper crowned Or. Escutcheon Per pale Gules and Azure a chevron between three lions rampant Or. Motto Vincula Da Linguae Vel Tibi Lingua Dabit (Bind The Tongue Or The Tongue Will Thee) [14]

References

Footnotes

1. Wakefield 2004.
2. Morgan 2015, pp. 432–433.
3. Challis, William (May 1979). "The Hand of God in the World". Third Way. Vol. 3 no. 5. London. p. 23. ISSN 0309-3492. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
4. Browning 2009, "Hoskyns, Edwyn Clement (1884–1937)".
5. "Rt Rev Edward Roberts". The Daily Telegraph. London. 3 July 2001. p. 25. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
6. Kaiser 2012, p. 2.
7. "Heroes of the Faith: Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, 1884–1937" (PDF). The Church Observer. London: Church Union. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
8. Hooker 2014, p. 197.
9. Eyre, Richard (15 August 2012). "The Rev Christopher Evans Obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
10. "Prebendary Donald Lynch". The Telegraph. London. 7 December 2000. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
11. Morgan 2015, p. 433.
12. TNA WO374/34868
13. London Gazette, 23.7.1918 p8811
14. Debrett's Peerage. 1878.

Bibliography

• Browning, W. R. F. (2009). A Dictionary of the Bible (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199543984.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-172688-0.
• Hooker, Morna D. (2014). "Christopher Francis Evans, 1909–2012" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. 13. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 195–214. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
• Kaiser, Austin Elliott (2012). Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury: Incarnational Anglicanism and British Society, 1928–1974 (PhD dissertation). Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon. hdl:1794/12367.
• Morgan, Robert (2015). "C.K. Barrett and New Testament Theology". Journal for the Study of the New Testament. 37 (4): 432–457. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.872.9168. doi:10.1177/0142064X15581323. ISSN 1745-5294. S2CID 170398044. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
• Wakefield, Gordon Stevens (2004). "Hoskyns, Sir Edwyn Clement, Thirteenth Baronet (1884–1937)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34008.