James Pounder Whitney (30 November 1857, in
Marsden, West Yorkshire
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– 17 June 1939, in
Cambridge
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) was a British
ecclesiastical historian
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Church history or ecclesiastical history as an academic discipline studies the history of Christianity and the way the Christian Church has developed since its inception.
Henry Melvill Gwatkin defined church history as "the spiritua ...
.
Educated at
King James's Grammar School, Almondbury
King James's School is a coeducational secondary school located in Almondbury in the English county of West Yorkshire.
History
King James's Grammar School was founded as chantry school in 1547 and received its name and a royal charter in 1608 ...
and
Owens College, Manchester
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, he was a foundation scholar at
King's College, Cambridge
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, gaining firsts in the mathematics and history
tripos
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es in 1881. A fellow of King's College, he was ordained an
Anglican
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priest
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in 1895. After various clerical and teaching appointment, he was professor of ecclesiastical history at
King's College London
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from 1908 to 1918. He was
Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History
The Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History is one of the senior professorships in history at the University of Cambridge.
Lord Mayor of London in the 16th century, Sir Wolstan Dixie, left funds to found both scholarships and fellowships at ...
at the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
from 1919 to 1939. He was joint editor of ''The Cambridge Medieval History'' from 1907 to 1922.
[''P.A. Linehan'', ‘The making of the Cambridge Medieval History’, ''Speculum'' 57 (1982), 463–494.]
Works
*''The higher criticism: A sermon, together with an open letter to His Lordship the Bishop-Coadjutor of Montreal with reference to his Provincial Synod sermon'' (1904)
*''The Reformation: Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A. D. 1503 to A. D. 1648'' (1907), later editions as ''History of the Reformation''
*''Pope Gregory VII and the Hildebrandine ideal'' (1910)
''The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume II: The Rise Of The Saracens And The Foundation Of The Western Empire''(1913) editor with
J. B. Bury
John Bagnell Bury (; 16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his ''Lat ...
and
Henry Melvill Gwatkin
Henry Melvill Gwatkin (30 July 1844 – 14 November 1916) was an England, English theologian and church historian.
Gwatkin was born at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, the youngest son of the Rev. Richard Gwatkin,"Gwatkin, Henry Melvill" in ''A ...
*''Hildebrandine Essays'' (1932)
*''Reformation Essays'' (1939)
References
*
C. W. Previté-Orton‘Whitney, James Pounder (1857–1939)’ rev. C. N. L. Brooke, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004
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1857 births
1939 deaths
British historians
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Fellows of King's College, Cambridge
Academics of King's College London
People educated at King James's School, Almondbury
Dixie Professors of Ecclesiastical History
People from Marsden, West Yorkshire
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