Brooke Foss Westcott
1825–1901
Biblical scholar. BA, Cambridge, 1848; fellow of Trinity College, 1849. Ordained deacon and priest, 1851. Assistant master at Harrow School, 1852–68. Examining chaplain to the bishop of Peterborough, 1868–83; residential canon, 1869–83. Regius professor of divinity at Cambridge, from 1870. Canon of Westminster, 1884–90; bishop of Durham, 1890–1901.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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