ANDREW

See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

MARTIN

See also:

• ANDREW MARTIN FAIRBAIRN (1838- )
• FAIRBAIRN, SIR WILLIAM

FAIRBAIRN (1838- )  , British Non-conformist divine, was born near Edinburgh on the 4th of November 1838 . He was educated at the universities of Edinburgh and Berlin, and at the Evangelical Union Theological Academy in Glasgow . He entered the Congregational ministry and held pastorates at Bathgate, West Lothian and at Aberdeen . From 1877 to 1886 he was principal of Airedale College, Bradford, a post which he gave up to become the first principal of Mansfield College, Oxford . In the transference to Oxford under that name of Spring Hill College, Birmingham, he took a considerable part, and he has exercised influence not only over generations of his own students, but also over a large number of undergraduates in the university generally . He was granted the degree of M.A. by a decree of Convocation, and in 1903 received the honorary degree of doctor of literature . He was also given the degrees of doctor of divinity of Edinburgh and Yale, and doctor of laws of Aberdeen . His activities were not limited to his college work . He delivered the Muir lectures at Edinburgh University (1878-1882), the Gifford lectures at Aberdeen (1892-1894), the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale (1891-1892), and the Haskell lectures in India (1898-1899) . He was a member of the Royal Commission of Secondary Education in 1894-1895, and of the Royal Commission on the Endowments of the Welsh Church in 1906 . In 1883 he was chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales . He is a prolific writer on theological subjects .

He resigned his position at Mansfield College in the spring of 1909 . Among his

works are :—Studies in the Philosophy of Religion and History (1876); Studies in the Life of Christ (1881); Religion in History and in Modern Life (1884; rev . 1893); Christ in Modern Theology (1893); Christ in the Centuries (1893); Catholicism Roman and Anglican (1899) ; Philosophy of the Christian Religion (1902) ; Studies in Religion and Theology (1909) .