Stanley Leathes (21 March 1830 – 30 April 1900) was an English theologian and Orientalist.

Biography

He was born at

Ellesborough Ellesborough is a village and civil parish in the south of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is at the foot of the Chiltern Hills just to the south of the Vale of Aylesbury, from Wendover and from Aylesbury. It lies between Wendover and th ...

, Buckinghamshire, the son of the Rev. Chaloner Stanley Leathes, and was educated at

Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes fr ...

, where he graduated B.A. in 1852, M.A. 1853. In 1853 he was awarded a Tyrwhitt's

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

scholarship. He was ordained priest in 1857, and after serving several curacies was appointed professor of Hebrew at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

, in 1863. In 1868–1870 he was

Boyle lecturer The Boyle Lectures are named after Robert Boyle, a prominent natural philosopher of the 17th century and son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Under the terms of his Will, Robert Boyle endowed a series of lectures or sermons (originally eight e ...

("The Witness of the Old Testament to Christ"), in 1873

Hulsean lecturer The Hulsean Lectures were established from an endowment made by John Hulse to the University of Cambridge in 1790. At present, they consist of a series of four to eight lectures given by a university graduate on some branch of Christian theology. ...

("The Gospel its Own Witness"), in 1874

Bampton Lecturer The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, England, were founded by a bequest of John Bampton. They have taken place since 1780. They were a series of annual lectures; since the turn of the 20th century they have typically been biennial ...

("The Religion of the Christ") and from 1876 to 1880

Warburtonian lecturer The Warburton Lectures (until the end of the nineteenth century often called the Warburtonian Lectures) are a series of theology lectures held in Lincoln's Inn, London. They were established in 1768 with money given by William Warburton, and were i ...

. He was a member of the

Old Testament The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...

revision committee from 1870 to 1885. In 1876 he was elected

prebendary A prebendary is a member of the Roman Catholic or Anglican clergy, a form of canon with a role in the administration of a cathedral or collegiate church. When attending services, prebendaries sit in particular seats, usually at the back of the ...

St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in London and is the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London and is a Grad ...

, and he was rector of

Cliffe-at-Hoo Cliffe is a village on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England, reached from the Medway Towns by a three-mile (4.8 km) journey along the B2000 road. Situated upon a low chalk escarpment overlooking the Thames marshes, Cliffe offers views of So ...

near

Gravesend Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the Bank (geography), south bank of the River Thames and opposite Tilbury in Essex. Located in the diocese of Ro ...

(1880–1889) and of

Much Hadham Much Hadham, formerly known as Great Hadham, is a village and civil parish in the district of East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England. The parish of Much Hadham contains the hamlets of Perry Green and Green Tye, as well as the village of Muc ...

, Hertfordshire (1889–1900). The

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

gave him the honorary degree of DD in 1878, and his own college made him an honorary Fellow in 1885. Besides the lectures noted he published ''Studies in Genesis'' (1880), The ''Foundations of Morality'' (1882) and some volumes of sermons.

Family

He married Matilda Butt. His son,

Stanley Mordaunt Leathes Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (7 May 1861 – 25 July 1938) was a British poet, economist, historian and senior Civil Service administrator, being the First Civil Service Commissioner from 1910 to 1927. Early life Leathes was born in London, the ...

, became a Fellow of Trinity, Cambridge, and lecturer on history, and was one of the editors of the ''

Cambridge Modern History ''The Cambridge Modern History'' is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery, published by the Cambridge University Press in England and also in the United States. The first series, planned by ...

''; he was secretary to the Civil Service Commission from 1903 to 1907, when he was appointed a Civil Service Commissioner. His second son,

John Beresford Leathes John Beresford Leathes DSc, MA, FRS, FRCS, FRCP (5 November 1864 – 14 September 1956) was a British physiologist and an early biochemist. He was the son of Hebrew scholar Stanley Leathes, and the brother of the poet, historian and First C ...

,Peters, Rudolph ''Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society'' – Vol. 4, (Nov., 1958), pp. 185–191 Published by: The Royal Society
/ref> a distinguished physiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1911.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Leathes, Stanley 1830 births 1900 deaths People from Wycombe District Academics of King's College London Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests People from Cliffe, Kent