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CANON SAMUEL ROLLES DRIVER. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received February 28, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, 27th February. Canon Samuel Rolles Driver, D.D., R-egius Professor of Hebrew and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, since 1893, is dead. [Dr. Driver was born at Southampton on 2nd October, 1846, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He secured Ist class Lit. Hum. -ill 1869, was Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew Scholar in 1870, won the Houghton Syriac Prize in 1872, was a Fellow of the New College from 1875 to 1883, tutor of the New College from 1875 to 1883, a member of the Old Testament Revision Company from 1876 to 1884, and examining chaplain to the Bishop of Southwell from 1884 to 1904. He wrote several works on the Scriptures and contributed articles to Hastings's "Dictionary of_ the Bible," the "Encyclopaedia Biblica," The Guardian, Expositor, and other periodicals. In 1888 he was joint editor of the Holy Bible, with various renderings and readings from the best authorities, and was joint author (with F. Brown and C. A. Briggs) of "A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament."]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1914, Page 5
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