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English Professor of Hebrew and Divinity
Memorial to Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick in
Ely Cathedral
Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick
(25 June 1849 ? 22 January 1940) was
Regius Professor of Hebrew
at
Cambridge University
(1882?1903) and the third
Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge
(1898?1907).
Life
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Kirkpatrick was born at
Lewes
,
East Sussex
, only son (with three daughters) of Rev. Francis Kirkpatrick, and was educated at
Haileybury
and
Trinity College, Cambridge
.
[1]
[2]
He also served as Canon of
Ely
(1882?1903),
Dean of Ely
[3]
(1906 -1936), Examining Chaplain to the
Bishop of Winchester
(1895?1903) and General Editor for
Old Testament
and
Apocrypha
of the
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
(1892?1929),
[4]
to which he contributed the commentaries on
1 and 2 Samuel
and the
Psalms
.
[5]
In his introduction to the book of Psalms, he observed that "they repeat the whispers of the Spirit of God, they reflect the very light of the Eternal Wisdom".
[6]
In 1884, Kirkpatrick married Julia Mary (1858-1943), daughter of Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, rector of
Exbury
, Hampshire.
[7]
They had five sons and a daughter.
[8]
References
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"Kirkpatrick, Alexander Francis (KRKK867AF)"
.
A Cambridge Alumni Database
. University of Cambridge.
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th edition, ed. H. Pirie-Gordon, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1937, p. 2615
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Cambridgeshire History On The Net
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Richard Zuelch:
Reiterations: Meditations Old and New on Christianity
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Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: List of Volumes, Authors, and Dates
, accessed 5 August 2017
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Kirkpatrick, A. F. (1906),
The Book of Psalms
, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges series, accessed 27 September 2018
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Haileybury Register, 1862-1891, second edition, ed. L. S. Milford, Stephen Austin & Sons, 1891, p. 19
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th edition, ed. H. Pirie-Gordon, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1937, p. 2615
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