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STANLEY LEATHES (1830-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 345 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STANLEY See also:LEATHES (1830-1900)  , See also:English divine and Orientalist, was See also:born at Ellesborough, Bucks, on the 21st of See also:March 183o, and was educated at Jesus See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1852, M.A . 1853 . In 1853 he was the first See also:Tyrwhitt's See also:Hebrew See also:scholar . He was ordained See also:priest in 1857, and after serving several curacies was appointed See also:professor of Hebrew at See also:King's College, See also:London, in 1863 . In 1868–187o he was See also:Boyle lecturer (The See also:Witness of the Old Testament to See also:Christ), in 1873 Hulsean lecturer (The See also:Gospel its Own Witness), in 1874 See also:Hampton Lecturer (The See also:Religion of the Christ) and from 1876 to 188o Warburtonian lecturer . He was a member of the Old Testament revision See also:committee from 187o to 1885 . In 1876 he was elected See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral, and he was See also:rector of Cliffe-at-Hoo near See also:Gravesend (188o–1889) and of Much Hadham, See also:Hertfordshire (1889–1900) . The university of See also:Edinburgh gave him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1878, and his own college made him an honorary See also:fellow in 1885 . Besides the lectures noted he published Studies in See also:Genesis (188o), The See also:Foundations of Morality (1882) and some volumes of sermons . He died in May 'goo . His son, See also:Stanley Mordaunt See also:Leathes (b . 1861), became a fellow of Trinity, Cambridge, and lecturer on See also:history, and was one of the editors of the Cambridge See also:Modern History; he was secretary to the See also:Civil Service See also:Commission from 1903 to 1907, when he was appointed a Civil Service See also:Commissioner .

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