James Amiraux Jérémie (12 April 1802,

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, Guernsey – 11 June 1872,

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, England) was Professor of Classical Literature at The

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1830–50, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1850, and

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of Lincoln. He was educated at Elizabeth College in Guernsey, and then at

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in Tiverton, before going to

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. Jeremie was appointed Professor of Classical and General Literature at the

in 1830, a post he resigned in 1850 when he was chosen Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University.

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made him

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in 1864, but he retained his Regius chair for six more years. Jeremie died unmarried, and was buried in his native Guernsey. A lithograph portrait by G. B. Black is in the collection of the

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