Herbert Danby was an Anglican priest and writer who played a central role in the change of attitudes toward Judaism in the first half of the twentieth century.
The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. A third chair existed for a period at Trinity College Dublin.
Samuel Rolles Driver was an English divine and Hebrew scholar. He devoted his life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament. He was the father of Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver, also a distinguished biblical scholar.
Robert Payne Smith was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church from 1865 until 1870, when he was appointed Dean of Canterbury by Queen Victoria on the advice of William Ewart Gladstone.
The Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion co-ordinates the teaching of theology at the University of Oxford. It is part of Oxford's Humanities Division.
St. Peter's Cathedral, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, was founded in 1869 as a result of the influence of the Oxford Movement. Since that time, the parish has remained Anglo-Catholic in ethos and practice.
Robert Lawrence Ottley was an English theologian.
Leonard Hodgson was an Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, historian of the early Church and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1944 to 1958.
Henry Chadwick was a British academic, theologian and Church of England priest. A former dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford – and as such, head of Christ Church, Oxford – he also served as master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Andrew Ewbank Burn was an English clergyman in the Church of England, Dean of Salisbury from 1920 until his death in 1927.
Edward Lowry Henderson was a priest in the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church.
James Gilliland Simpson was the Dean of Peterborough in the Church of England from 1928 to 1942.
Norman Hook was an Anglican dean in the second quarter of the 20th century. Born in 1898 he was educated at Durham University and ordained in 1921. Following curacies in Liverpool he held incumbencies at Enborne, West Norwood and Knutsford. In 1945 he was appointed Rural Dean of Wimbledon and became a Canon of Southwark Cathedral. From 1953 until 1969 he was Dean of Norwich. An eminent author, he died on 20 May 1976.
Frederick William Dillistone was the second Dean of Liverpool.
William Cyril Mayne was an English clergyman and classical scholar. He was Dean of Carlisle from 1943 to 1959.
Charles Venn Pilcher was an Anglican bishop, theologian and writer and translator of hymns. He was a member and the Secretary of the Australian Hymn Supplement Committee, and author of the Preface to the Australian Hymn Supplement to the Book of Common Praise. He wrote hymns and composed tunes for both the original hymn book and for the Australian supplement. He was also a keen supporter of the Zionist cause.
Carlyle Witton-Davies was an Anglican priest and scholar.
The Regius Professorship of Hebrew in the University of Oxford is a professorship at the University of Oxford, founded by Henry VIII in 1546.
David Capell Simpson, known as D. C. Simpson, was a British biblical scholar, academic and Church of England clergyman. He was Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1950.
The Society for Old Testament Study (SOTS) is a learned society, based in the British Isles, of professional scholars and others committed to the study of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament.
