James Pounder Whitney (30 November 1857, in
Marsden, West Yorkshire – 17 June 1939, in
Cambridge) was a British
ecclesiastical historian.
Educated at
King James's Grammar School, Almondbury and
Owens College, Manchester, he was a foundation scholar at
King's College, Cambridge, gaining firsts in the mathematics and history
triposes in 1881. A fellow of King's College, he was ordained an
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
priest in 1895. After various clerical and teaching appointment, he was professor of ecclesiastical history at
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
from 1908 to 1918. He was
Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the
University 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)
''The Cambridge Medieval History: Volume II: The Rise Of The Saracens And The Foundation Of The Western Empire''(1913) editor with
J. B. Bury and
Henry Melvill Gwatkin
*''Hildebrandine Essays'' (1932)
*''Reformation Essays'' (1939)
References
*
C. W. Previté-Orton‘Whitney, James Pounder (1857–1939)’ rev. C. N. L. Brooke, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004
External links
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1857 births
1939 deaths
British historians
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Fellows of King's College, Cambridge
Academics of King's College London
People educated at King James's School, Almondbury
Dixie Professors of Ecclesiastical History
People from Marsden, West Yorkshire
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