Samuel Rolles Driver

Samuel Rolles Driver FBA (2 October 1846 – 26 February 1914) was an English divine and Hebrew scholar. He devoted his life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament. He was the father of Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver, also a distinguished biblical scholar.

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Biography
Tom Quad (1525–1529) at Christ Church, Oxford where Driver's funeral procession took place on 2 March, 1914

Samuel Rolles Driver was born in Southampton. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, receiving a first-class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1869. He was awarded the Pusey and Ellerton scholarship in 1866, the Kennicott scholarship in 1870 (both Hebrew), and the Houghton Syriac prize in 1872. From 1870 he was a fellow, and from 1875 also a tutor, of New College, and in 1883 succeeded Pusey as Regius Professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford until his death in 1914.[1]

He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee of the Revised Version (1876–1884) and examining chaplain to the Bishop of Southwell (1884–1904). He received the honorary degrees of doctor of literature of the University of Dublin (1892), doctor of divinity of the University of Glasgow (1901),[2] and doctor of literature of the University of Cambridge (1905), and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1902.[1]

Driver married Mabel, daughter of Edmund Barr, of Burgh, near Aylsham, Norfolk, in 1891; they had two sons and two daughters.[1] He died at Oxford in 1914. His funeral was attended by Noel Middleton - the great-grandfather of Catherine, Princess of Wales - and his brother and sister-in-law Mr and Mrs Gilbert Middleton who were reportedly part of the funeral procession leading from Driver's lodgings in Tom Quad at Christ Church where he was canon.[3][4]

Works

Among Driver's numerous works are commentaries on:[1]

Among his more general works are:[1]

See also

Notes
  1. Chisholm 1911, p. 585.
  2. "Glasgow University jubilee". The Times. No. 36481. London. 14 June 1901. p. 10.
  3. Times staff 1914, p. 11.
  4. "FUNERAL OF CANON DRIVER". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer Yorkshire, England. 3 March 1914. Retrieved 25 November 2022. FUNERAL OF CANON DRIVER - The funeral of the late Canon [Samuel] Driver, Regius Professor Hebrew Oxford and Sub-Dean of the Cathedral, took place yesterday afternoon [March 2], and was attended by a very large gathering. The procession from the deceased's lodgings, in Tom Quadrangle...Kitson...Mr. Curtis Ingham. Mr. R. Wilson Lieut.- Colonel E. A- Hirst, Sir. B. Mr. W. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Middleton, Mr. Noel Middleton, Mr Nussey. Mr. Tannett Walker, Mr. C. C. Scott, Mr. Frank H. Mayo...

References
  • Times staff (27 February 1914). "Death Of Canon S. R. Driver. A Great Biblical Scholar". The Times. No. 40458. London. col F, p. 11.

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