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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(1828-1889) Theologian and scholar, born at Liverpool, and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Cambridge, entered the Church, and was successively Hulsean Professor of Divinity 1861, Chaplain to Queen Victoria 1862, member of the New Testament Company of Revisers 1870-80, Margaret Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, 1875, and Bishop of Durham 1879. He was probably the greatest scholar of his day in England, especially as a grammarian and textual critic. Among his works are Commentaries on several of the minor Pauline epistles, a fragmentary work on the Apostolic Fathers, Leaders in the Northern Church (1890), and The Apostolic Age (1892).
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