William Emery Barnes

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]


William Emery Barnes

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

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