Dates

• Existence: 1831 - 1895

Biography

Joseph Rawson Lumby (1831-95), author and Church of England clergyman, was born at Stanningley, near Leeds, on 18 July 1831. On 2 August 1841 he was admitted to Leeds grammar school and in March 1848 he left to become master of a school at Meanwood. In October 1854 he entered Magdalene College, Cambridge; in the following year he was elected to a Milner close scholarship. In 1858 he graduated BA, being bracketed ninth in the first class of the classical tripos, and was ordained in the following year. He was awarded an MA in 1861, a BD in 1873, and a DD in 1879. In 1860 he gained the Crosse theological scholarship, the chaplaincy of Magdalene, and the curacy of Girton. In the following year he won the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship, and was appointed classical lecturer at Queens' College. In 1874, he was chosen fellow and dean of St Catharine's College, Cambridge; having resigned his curacy at Girton he became curate of St Mark's, Newnham. In the following year he was appointed, on the nomination of Trinity Hall, to the non-stipendiary cure of St Edward's, Cambridge, where his sermons were much appreciated by undergraduates. In 1879 he was elected to the Norrisian professorship of divinity; he was also Lady Margaret preacher for that year. In 1887 he was made prebendary of Wetwang in the cathedral church of York, and acted as examining chaplain to the archbishop of York and the bishop of Carlisle. On the death of F. J. A. Hort in 1892 he was unanimously chosen to succeed him as Lady Margaret professor of divinity. He died at Merton House, Grantchester, near Cambridge, on 21 November 1895.

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