William Emery Barnes

The Reverend William Emery Barnes FRSE
Born	William Emery Barnes (1859-05-26)26 May 1859 Islington
Died	Exeter
Spouse(s)	Georgina de Horne (m. 1890)
Academic background
Alma mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Institutions	University of Cambridge

William Emery Barnes FRSE (1859–1939) was an English academic, most notably Hulsean Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1901 until 1934.

Education

Barnes 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 death.

Publications

• Canonical and Uncanonical Gospels, 1893
• The Peshitta Text of Chronicles, 1897
• The Psalms in the Peshitta Version, 1904
• Lex in Corde (studies in the Psalter), 1910
• Early Christians at Prayer, 1925
• The Forgivenesses of Jesus Christ, 1936

External links

• World cat
• Biblical Studies

Academic offices
Preceded by Herbert Edward Ryle	Hulsean Professor of Divinity 1887–1901	Succeeded by Francis Crawford Burkitt