James Pounder Whitney (30 November 1857, in

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– 17 June 1939, in

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) was a British

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. Educated at

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and Owens College, Manchester, he was a foundation scholar at

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, gaining firsts in the mathematics and history

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es in 1881. A fellow of King's College, he was ordained an

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in 1895. After various clerical and teaching appointment, he was professor of ecclesiastical history at

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from 1908 to 1918. He was

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at the

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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 and Henry Melvill Gwatkin *''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

External links

* 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 {{UK-historian-stub