Claude Jenkins (1877–1959) was an Anglican clergyman, theologian and historian.
Biography
He became
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Christ Church and
Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History
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Oxford University
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in 1934. He was Lambeth Librarian from 1910 until 1952.
[''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2004)]
He was famous for collecting books, having an estimated 30,000 at the time of his death:
References
1877 births
1959 deaths
20th-century English Anglican priests
Regius Professors of Ecclesiastical History
English Christian theologians
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