James Ernest Davey (1890–1960) was a Northern Irish Presbyterian minister, historian, and theologian who was acquitted on charges of heresy in 1927 and elected

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of the

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in 1953.

Education

Davey was born on 24 June 1890 in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, the eldest child of the Rev Charles Davey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Margaret. When Ernest was one the family moved to Belfast. He attended both

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and

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before graduating in 1912 from

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Theologian and historian

From 1917 until his death in 1960 he was on the staff of the Presbyterian college, in Belfast, variously occupying the four chairs of church history; biblical literature and Hellenistic Greek; Hebrew and Old Testament; and New Testament language, literature, and theology.

References

1890 births 1960 deaths 20th-century Presbyterian ministers from Northern Ireland People from Ballymena People educated at Methodist College Belfast Moderators of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland {{Ireland-Christian-clergy-stub