THE REV. DR MERRINGTON

Otago Witness, Issue 3619, 24 July 1923, Page 47

THE REV. DR MERRINGTON

A DISTINGUISHED CAREER. The Rev. Dr Ernest Northeroft Merrington, who has received a call to First Church, was born at Newcastle, New South Wales! in. 1876, and is a son of the late James Mayfield Herrington, of New Zealand and Australia, his mother being a daughter of Mr R. N. Jenkins, of Sydney. He was educated at Sydney High School, and Sydney University, and took high honours in mental and moral philosophy. He was gold medallist for the Graduates’ Philosophical Essay for the Wooiey Travelling Scholarship m 1901 and 1902. He studied theology at St. Andrew’s College, Sydney and Edinburgh University, and was first in logic and mental and moral philosophy New College, U.F. Church. Edinburgh, and Harvard University. In addition, he gained the University Scholarship and Ph.D in 1905, and returned to Australia in the same year. He was ordained in 1902, arid became minister of several churches. At one time he occupied the position of lecturer in philosophy at Sydney University, and was also moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland. He was a member of the Senate of Queensland, and filled a great many other offices in keeping with his high scholastic attainments. Dr Merrington is the author of “The Possibility of a Science of Casuistry,” “The Problem of Personality,” and many articles and reviews. In 1903 he married a daughter of Mr Neil Livingstone, of Sydney. Dr Merrington went away with the Australian Expeditionary Force as a chaplain, and was 18 months at Gallipoli. Subsequently he went back to Brisbane, but the war called him once more, and he served for a year in France. The family consists of two girls and a boy.

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