John de Soyres (April 26, 1847 – February 3, 1905) was a Protestant Reverend and scholar. He was born in the village of Bilbrook, near Old Cleeve, in Somersetshire, England, and attended

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...

, where he obtained the degrees of BA and MA. In 1888 he immigrated to

Saint John, New Brunswick Saint John is a seaport city of the Atlantic Ocean located on the Bay of Fundy in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. Saint John is the oldest incorporated city in Canada, established by royal charter on May 18, 1785, during the reign of Ki ...

, Canada, to assume the rectorship of the St. John (Stone) Church there."

Works

*''Montanism and the primitive church; a study in the ecclesiastical history of the second century'', 1878 *(ed.) ''The provincial letters of Pascal'', 1880 *''The children of wisdom and other sermons preached in Canadian pulpits'', 1897 *''Christianity and Biblical Criticism'' (1890)

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1847 births 1905 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Presidents of the Cambridge Union {{England-reli-bio-stub