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JOHN JAMES STEWART PEROWNE (1823—1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 179 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN JAMES STEWART PEROWNE (1823—1904)  ,
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English bishop, was born, of Huguenot ancestry, at Burdwan, Bengal, on the 13th of March 1823 . He was educated at Norwich and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, bcoming a
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fellow in 1849 . After holding a chair in King's College,
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London, he was appointed
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vice-
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principal at St David's College, Lampeter (1862—1872) . In 1868 he was Hulsean lecturer, taking as his subject Immortality . He was elected
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canon of
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Llandaff in x869, dean of Peter-borough 1878, and in 1891 succeeded Henry Philpott as bishop of Worcester . Perowne was a good
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Hebrew scholar of the old type and sat on the Old Testament Revision Committee . He is best remembered as the general editor of the Cambridge Bible for
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Schools and Colleges . His chief
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works were a Commentary on the
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Book of Psalms (2 vols., 1864—1868) and a
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life of Bishop Thirlwall (1877—1878) . He resigned his see in Igor, and died on the 6th of November 1904 .

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