George Kitchin

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George Kitchin
Warden of the University of Durham
In office
1894–1908
Preceded byWilliam Lake
Succeeded byFrank Jevons
Chancellor of the University of Durham
In office
1908–1912
Preceded byNew creation
Succeeded byHenry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland
Dean of Durham
In office
1894–1912
Preceded byWilliam Lake
Succeeded byHensley Henson
Personal details
Born7 December 1827
Warden
Memorial in Winchester Cathedral

George William Kitchin (7 December 1827 – 13 October 1912) was the first

University of Durham, from the institution of the role in 1908 until his death in 1912. He was also the last Dean of Durham
to govern the university.

Early life

Kitchin was the son of the Reverend Isaac Kitchin, then curate of St Mary's

King's College, London, then at Christ Church, Oxford, where in 1850 he took a Double First in Classics and Mathematics, promoted by seniority to MA (Oxon) in 1852.[1]

Career

In 1854, Kitchin was an examiner in Mathematics at Christ Church.

Clarendon Press, including working on the proofs of Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson's Icelandic-English Dictionary.[4]

He was appointed as Chaplain to

King's College, London, and an honorary Student (meaning Fellow) of Christ Church. In theology he was a moderate liberal.[1]

The grave of George Kitchin, Durham Cathedral churchyard

In 1879, Kitchin was a member of a committee formed to create a

Somerville Hall, later renamed Somerville College.[5]

In 1883, Kitchin was appointed as Dean of Winchester and in 1894 as Dean of Durham.[2] At Oxford, his friends included John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll.[6]

While

J D Sedding. However, Sedding's design for the scheme did not meet with general satisfaction and was not implemented.[7] Thereafter, Kitchin personally took over and master-minded the entire project, essentially as his own architect, commissioning the many new statues needed to populate the restored screen. When completed, this was acclaimed as one of the Church of England's major artistic ecclesiastical restorations of the 19th century.[citation needed
]

Kitchin wrote the hymn 'Lift High the Cross' in 1887 for a Missionary Service in Winchester Cathedral.[citation needed]

Kitchin described several biblical manuscripts: Uncial 0132, minuscule 73, Minuscule 506, Minuscule 507, and Minuscule 639.[citation needed]

In 1910, when the

University of Durham was given a new constitution, Kitchin was elected as its first Chancellor
and remained in office until his death two years later.

He died on 13 October 1912. He is buried on the west (right hand side) of the entrance path to Durham Cathedral next to Bishop Alfred Tucker.[citation needed]

Private life

On 8 September 1863, at

Lyegrove House, Sodbury, and Horsley Hall, Gresford.[10] He was also a botanist and garden architect. [citation needed] They had three further children, two sons, Hugh Bridges and Brook Taylor, and a second daughter, Dorothy Maud Mary.[citation needed
]

Works

  • Catalogus codicum MSS. qui in bibliotheca Aedis Christi, Oxford 1867.
  • Bacon's Novum Organum (2 vols., Oxford, 1855)
  • Bacon's Advancement of Learning (London, 1860)
  • Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of Christ Church, Oxford (Oxford, 1867)
  • A History of France (3 vols., 1873–77)
  • "France - History” (article),
    Encyclopaedia Britannica
    , 9th and 10th editions, 1875-89 and 1902-03.
  • "The Inquisition" (article),
    Encyclopaedia Britannica
    , 9th and 10th editions, 1875-89 and 1902-03.
  • An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language (Crowned by the French Academy) by A. Brachet, author of 'A Historical Grammar of the French Tongue' Formerly Examiner and Professor at the Polytechnic School, Paris Laureate of the Institute, etc. Translated by G.W. Kitchin, M.A. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1878)
  • Life of Pope Pius II (1881)
  • Winchester Cathedral Records (2 vols., Winchester, 1886)
  • Documents Relating to the Foundation of the Chapter of Winchester, A.D. 1541–1547 (London, 1889)
  • Winchester (1890)
  • Rolls of the Obedientaries of St. Swithin's Priory, A.D. 1309–1534 (Winchester, 1895)
  • The Manor of Manydown, Hampshire (1895)
  • Edward Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester: A Memoir (London, 1895)
  • Ruskin in Oxford, and other Studies (1904).
  • Sir Roger L'Estrange: A Contribution to the History of the Press in the Seventeenth Century[11]

References

  1. ^
    Calvin College
    .
  2. ^ a b "Kitchin". Centre for Church Music.
  3. ^ Henry Lewis Thompson (1899). Henry George Liddell, D.D., dean of Christ church, Oxford. J. Murray. p. 153.
  4. ^ a b Ellwood, Thomas (1894). The Landnama Book of Iceland. p. i.
  5. ^ Pauline Adams (1996). Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993. Oxford University Press. p. 14.
  6. ISBN 0-571-11305-2
    ..
  7. ^ Sedding's architectural design drawing is held at The National Monuments Record, Swindon.
  8. ^ Glasgow Herald, 10 September 1863
  9. ^ "FreeBMD Home Page". www.freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  10. ^ "George Herbert Kitchin". www.parksandgardens.org. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  11. ^ ISBN 0678007039
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