Author talk:John Neville Figgis

Obit

The Times, Wednesday, Apr 16, 1919; Issue 42076; pg. 14; col E

    Death Of Dr. Figgis. Historian And Divine.

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FIGGIS, JOHN NEVILLE. Adm. pens, at St Catharine's, May 20, 1885. S. of John Benjamin [a leading Evangelical minister, of Lady Huntingdon's connexion]. B. [Oct. 2, 1866], at Brighton. [School, Brighton College.] Matrii Michs. 1885; B.A. 1888; (Hist. Trip., 1st Class, 1889); Lightfoot Scholar, 1890; 2nd Whewell Scholar, 1891; Prince Consort Prize, 1892; M.A. 1892. Hon. Fellow, 1909. 11 >i D.D. (Glasgow). Ord. deacon (Peterb.) 1894; priest, 1895; C. of Kettering, Northants., 1894-5. C. of Gt St M try' Cambridge, 1895-8. Chaplain of Pembroke, 1898-1900. R. of Mamhull, Dorset, i<;o2 7; resigned, and entered the Community of the Resurre- 1 imii Mirfield. Hulsean Lecturer, 1908-9. Noble Lecturer at Harvard University, U.S.A., 191 1. Bishop Paddock Lecturer at the General Theological Senun <-rk, 1913. Bross Lecturer, 1 dfl I P Illinois, 1915. After an operation, started on a third visit to America; his ship, the Andania, was torpedoed, Jan. 26, 1918, and the shock hastened his death, which occnti Apr. 13, 1919. Author, Divine rtgi 1 fi n% English History; Christianity and History; The Gospel and Human Needs. Edited, with K. V. Laurence, Lord Lectures and Essays. (D.N.B.; Brighton Coll. Reg.; Twentieth • . Scott, MSS.; Schoohnasters' r, Who was It 'V , nr'>-i8.)