Joseph Rawson Lumby (1831–1895) was an English cleric, academic and author and divine, Norrisian Professor of Divinity from 1879 and then

Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity is the oldest professorship at the University of Cambridge. It was founded initially as a readership by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, in 1502. Since its re-endowment at the end of ...

from 1892.

Life

He was the son of John Lumby of

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, near

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, where he was born on 18 July 1831. He was admitted on 2 August 1841 to

Leeds grammar school Leeds Grammar School was an independent school founded 1552 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally a male-only school, in August 2005 it merged with Leeds Girls' High School to form The Grammar School at Leeds. The two schools physically ...

. In March 1848 he left to become master of a school at

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; but he was encouraged to proceed to the university. In October 1854 he entered

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, where in the following year he was elected to a Milner close scholarship. In 1858 he graduated B.A., being bracketed ninth in the first class of the classical tripos. His subsequent degrees were M.A. 1861, B.D. 1873, D.D. 1879. Within a few months of graduation Lumby was made Dennis Fellow of his college, and began to take pupils. In 1860 he gained the Crosse scholarship, and in the same year was ordained deacon and priest in the

diocese of Ely The Diocese of Ely is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury. It is headed by the Bishop of Ely, who sits at Ely Cathedral in Ely. There is one suffragan (subordinate) bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon. The diocese now co ...

. For clerical work he had the chaplaincy of Magdalene and the curacy of Girton. In 1861 he won the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship, and was appointed classical lecturer at

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. In 1873 he joined the Old Testament Revision Company, and he worked also on the revision of the

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(he just lived to see the appearance of the revised version). In 1874, a widower through the death of his first wife, Lumby was chosen

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and Dean of St Catharine's College, and, having resigned his curacy at Girton, was made curate of St Mark's, Newnham. The following year he was appointed, on the nomination of Trinity Hall, to the vicarage (non-stipendiary) of St Edward's, Cambridge. In 1879 he was elected to the Norrisian professorship of divinity, and was also Lady Margaret preacher for that year. Having vacated his fellowship at St Catharine's by a second marriage, Lumby was appointed to a professorial fellowship in that college in 1886. In 1887 he was made prebendary of Wetwang in the

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, and acted as examining chaplain to the

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and the

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. On the death of

Fenton John Anthony Hort Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892), known as F. J. A. Hort, was an Irish-born theologian and editor, with Brooke Foss Westcott of a critical edition of ''The New Testament in the Original Greek''. Life He was born on 23 April 182 ...

in 1892, he was chosen to succeed him as Lady Margaret professor of divinity. Lumby died at Merton House,

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, near Cambridge, on 21 November 1895.

Works

Lumby was one of the founders of the

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, and edited for it ''

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'' (1866), ''Ratis Raving'' (1867), and other pieces. For the

Rolls series ''The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages'' ( la, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores), widely known as the is a major collection of British and Irish historical materials and primary sources publish ...

, after a request by the

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to continue the work of

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, he edited vols. iii–ix. of

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's ''Polychronicon'' (1871–86), and vol. i. of the ''Chronicon'' of

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(1889). To the Pitt Press series he contributed editions of

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's ''Henry VII'' (1876), ''Venerabilis Bædæ Historiæ … Libri iii. iv.'' (with John E. B. Mayor, 1878),

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's ''

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'', in Ralph Robynson's English translation (1879), More's ''History of Richard III'' (1883), and

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's ''Essays'' (1887). As co-editor of the '' Cambridge Bible for Schools'', he edited, with commentary, ''The Acts'' (chaps. i–xiv., 1879; completed 1884), ''1 Kings'' (1886), ''2 Kings'' (1887), ''The Acts'' in the ''Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools'' (1885), also in ''The Smaller Cambridge Bible for Schools'' (1889), and for this last series ''1 Kings'' (1891). To the ''Sunday School Centenary Bible'' he contributed a ''Glossary of Bible Words'' (1880), republished in the same year in another version by the

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. For the ''

Speaker's Commentary Frederic Charles Cook (1 December 1804– 22 June 1889) was an English churchman, known as a linguist and the editor of the ''Speaker's Commentary'' on the Bible. Life Born at Millbrook, Hampshire, and later moved to Berkshire, he was admitted a ...

'' he edited ''2 Peter'' and ''Jude'' (1881); for ''A Popular Commentary'' the ''Epistles to the Philippians'' and ''Philemon'' (1882); and for ''The Expositor's Bible'' the two ''Epistles of St. Peter'' (1893). Lumby wrote also: *the chapter on ''The Ordinary Degree'' in

John Robert Seeley Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMG (10 September 1834 – 13 January 1895) was an English Liberal historian and political essayist. A founder of British imperial history, he was a prominent advocate for the British Empire, promoting a concept of Grea ...

's ''Guide'' (1866), *''Three Sermons on Early Dissent'', &c. (1870), *''A History of the Creeds'' (1873),
''A Sketch of a Course of English Reading''
(1873), *''Hear the Church'' (1877), *''Greek Learning in the Western Church'' (a pamphlet, 1878), preface to a ''Compendium of Church History'' (1883),
''A Popular Introduction to the New Testament''
(1883), and *articles in th
''Cambridge Companion to the Bible''
(1893). He was a contributor to the ''

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''.

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