William Emery Barnes

{{Short description|English Anglican priest and theologian (1859–1939)}}

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William Emery Barnes {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSE}} (1859–1939) was an English academic,'Deaths' Saturday, Aug. 19, 1939 The Times Issue: 48388 most notably Hulsean Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1901 until 1934.{{Who's Who | title=Barnes, William Emery | id = U205706 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 14 December 2020 }}

Early life and education

Barnes was born on 26 May 1859 in Islington. He was educated at Islington Proprietary School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Career

He was ordained in 1884 and served his title at St John's Church, Waterloo. He was a lecturer in Hebrew at Clare College, Cambridge, from 1885 to 1894; and in divinity at Peterhouse, Cambridge, from 1889 to 1901. He was Dean of Peterhouse from 1920 to 1921; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Peterborough from 1920 to 1927; and Canon Theologian of Leicester from 1932 until his deathCrockford's Clerical Directory 1938 p66: Oxford; OUP; 1938 on 17 August 1939 in Exeter.