Stanley Leathes (21 March 1830 – 30 April 1900) was an English theologian and Orientalist.

Biography

He was born at

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, Buckinghamshire, the son of the Rev. Chaloner Stanley Leathes, and was educated at

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, where he graduated B.A. in 1852, M.A. 1853. In 1853 he was awarded a Tyrwhitt's

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scholarship. He was ordained priest in 1857, and after serving several curacies was appointed professor of Hebrew at

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, in 1863. In 1868–1870 he was

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("The Witness of the Old Testament to Christ"), in 1873

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("The Gospel its Own Witness"), in 1874

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("The Religion of the Christ") and from 1876 to 1880 Warburtonian lecturer. He was a member of the

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revision committee from 1870 to 1885. In 1876 he was elected

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, and he was rector of

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near

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(1880–1889) and of

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, Hertfordshire (1889–1900). The

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gave him the honorary degree of DD in 1878, and his own college made him an honorary Fellow in 1885. Besides the lectures noted he published ''Studies in Genesis'' (1880), The ''Foundations of Morality'' (1882) and some volumes of sermons.

Family

He married Matilda Butt.1881 England Census for Stanley Leathes
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'' His son, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, became a Fellow of Trinity, Cambridge, and lecturer on history, and was one of the editors of the ''

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''; he was secretary to the Civil Service Commission from 1903 to 1907, when he was appointed a Civil Service Commissioner. His second son,

John Beresford Leathes John Beresford Leathes (5 November 1864 – 14 September 1956) was a British physiologist and an early biochemist. He was the son of Hebrew scholar Stanley Leathes, and the brother of the poet, historian and First Civil Service Commissioner Si ...

, a distinguished physiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1911.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Leathes, Stanley 1830 births 1900 deaths People from Wycombe District Academics of King's College London Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests People from Cliffe, Kent