Alexander Kirkpatrick
Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick (25 June 1849 – 22 January 1940) was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge (1882–1903) and the third Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge (1898–1907).
Life
[edit]Kirkpatrick was born at Lewes, East Sussex, only son (with three daughters) of Rev. Francis Kirkpatrick, and was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1][2]
He also served as Canon of Ely (1882–1903), Dean of Ely[3] (1906 -1936), Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester (1895–1903) and General Editor for Old Testament and Apocrypha of the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (1892–1929),[4] to which he contributed the commentaries on 1 and 2 Samuel and the Psalms.[5] In his introduction to the book of Psalms, he observed that "they repeat the whispers of the Spirit of God, they reflect the very light of the Eternal Wisdom".[6]
In 1884, Kirkpatrick married Julia Mary (1858-1943), daughter of Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, rector of Exbury, Hampshire.[7] They had five sons and a daughter.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Kirkpatrick, Alexander Francis (KRKK867AF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th edition, ed. H. Pirie-Gordon, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1937, p. 2615
- ^ Cambridgeshire History On The Net
- ^ Richard Zuelch: Reiterations: Meditations Old and New on Christianity
- ^ Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: List of Volumes, Authors, and Dates, accessed 5 August 2017
- ^ Kirkpatrick, A. F. (1906), The Book of Psalms, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges series, accessed 27 September 2018
- ^ Haileybury Register, 1862-1891, second edition, ed. L. S. Milford, Stephen Austin & Sons, 1891, p. 19
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th edition, ed. H. Pirie-Gordon, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1937, p. 2615
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