John Oulton

{{Short description|Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin}}

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{{Portal|Christianity}}John Ernest Leonard Oulton, D.D. (22 March 1886 – 2 February 1957) was Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin from 1935.University News. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 6 Jul 1935; pg. 14; Issue 47109 until his death.Prof. J. E. L. Oulton. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 5 Feb 1957; pg. 10; Issue 53757

The son of The Rev. Richard Charles Oulton, BD, the incumbent of Glynn,Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p 898: London, Horace Cox, 1885 he was educated at Campbell College and Trinity College Dublin. He won the Vice-Chancellor's Latin Medal in 1907; and the Berkeley Gold Medal in Greek in 1909. He was ordained in 1914.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p 970: London, OUP, 1929 He served curacies at Harold's Cross and St Stephen's Church, Dublin; and incumbencies at Chapelizod and Monkstown, County Dublin. He was Assistant Lecturer in Divinity at TCD from 1924 to 1930;University News. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 25 Nov 1930; pg. 17; Issue 45679 Lecturer on the Bible from 1926 to 1929; and Archbishop King’s Professor of Divinity from 1930 to 1935{{Who's Who | title=Oulton, Henry Varian | id = U195346 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = June 2018 online | access-date = 2 June 2018 }}