J. Rawson Lumby

Joseph Rawson Lumby (1831–1895) was an English cleric, academic and author and divine,

Within a few months of graduation Lumby was made Dennis Fellow of his college, and began to take pupils. In 1860 he gained the Crosse scholarship, and in the same year was ordained deacon and priest in the diocese of Ely. For clerical work he had the chaplaincy of Magdalene and the curacy of Girton. In 1861 he won the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship, and was appointed classical lecturer at Queens' College. In 1873 he joined the Old Testament Revision Company, and he worked also on the revision of the Apocrypha (he just lived to see the appearance of the revised version).^[2]

In 1874, a widower through the death of his first wife, Lumby was chosen

Lumby died at Merton House, Grantchester, near Cambridge, on 21 November 1895.^[2]

Works

Lumby was one of the founders of the

• the chapter on The Ordinary Degree in John Robert Seeley's Guide (1866),
• Three Sermons on Early Dissent, &c. (1870),
• A History of the Creeds (1873),
• A Sketch of a Course of English Reading (1873),
• Hear the Church (1877),
• Greek Learning in the Western Church (a pamphlet, 1878), preface to a Compendium of Church History (1883),
• A Popular Introduction to the New Testament (1883), and
• articles in the Cambridge Companion to the Bible (1893).

He was a contributor to the

See also

• Knighton's Chronicon

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lupton, Joseph Hirst (1901). "Lumby, Joseph Rawson". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

External links

• Works by or about J. Rawson Lumby at Internet Archive