- James Pounder Whitney
James Pounder Whitney (
30 November 1857 ,Marsden, West Yorkshire –17 June 1939 ,Cambridge ) was a Britishecclesiastical historian .Educated at King James's Grammar School,
Almondbury andOwens College, Manchester , he was a foundation scholar atKing's College, Cambridge , gaining firsts in the mathematics and historytripos es in 1881. A fellow of King's College, he was ordained an Anglicanpriest in 1895. After various clerical and teaching appointment, he was professor of ecclesiastical history atKing's College London from 1908 to 1918. He wasDixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at theUniversity of Cambridge from 1919 to 1939. He was joint editor of "The Cambridge Medieval History" from 1907 to 1922. ["P.A. Linehan", ‘The making of the Cambridge Medieval History’, "Speculum" 57 (1982), 463–494.]Works
*"The higher criticism: A sermon, together with an open letter to His Lordship the Bishop-Coadjutor of Montreal with reference to his Provincial Synod sermon" (1904)
*"The Reformation: Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A. D. 1503 to A. D. 1648" (1907), later editions as "History of the Reformation"
*"Pope Gregory VII and the Hildebrandine ideal" (1910)
*"Hildebrandine Essays" (1932)
*"Reformation Essays" (1939)References
*C. W. Previté-Orton, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36879 ‘Whitney, James Pounder (1857–1939)’] , rev. C. N. L. Brooke, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004
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*worldcat id|lccn-no2003-23713
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