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Name
  
Alexander Nairne


Died
  
1936


Books
  
Every Man's Story of the Old, The Old Testament in the Ch, Every Man's Story of the Ne, Immortality: The Christian

Alexander Nairne D.D. (d. 1936) was a Canon of Windsor from 1921 to 1936 and Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge.

Career

He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge and graduated DD in 1914.

He was appointed:

  • Assistant curate of Great St Mary's, Cambridge 1887 - 1889
  • Assistant Master at Harrow School 1890 - 1892
  • Assistant curate at Hadleigh, Suffolk 1892 - 1894
  • Rector of Tewin 1894 - 1912
  • Professor Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, King’s College, London 1900 - 1917
  • Vicar of All Saints Church, Cambridge 1917 - 1919
  • Dean of Jesus College, Cambridge 1917
  • Canon of Chester Cathedral 1914 - 1922
  • Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge 1922 - 1932
  • He was appointed to the eleventh stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1921, and held the stall until 1936.

    References

    Alexander Nairne Wikipedia