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Robert Baker Girdlestone

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Robert Baker Girdlestone
BornRobert Baker Girdlestone Edit this on Wikidata
3 October 1836 Edit this on Wikidata
Sedgley Edit this on Wikidata
Died1923 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 86–87)
Position helddirector (British and Foreign Bible Society), head teacher (Wycliffe HallEdit this on Wikidata

Robert Baker Girdlestone (1836–1923) was an Anglican cleric who ministered at St John's Downshire Hill, Hampstead. He studied at Charterhouse, London, and Christ Church, Oxford, and was first principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. A Hebrew scholar and head of the translation department of the British and Foreign Bible Society, he is best known for his reference work Synonyms of the Old Testament.

Life

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Robert Baker Girdlestone was the seventh son of Charles Girdlestone, a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.[1] R. B. Girdlestone was minister of St. John's[2] Downshire Hill, Hampstead, then head of the translation department of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and first principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, in the post from 1877 to 1889.[3]

Family

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His third son Gathorne Robert Girdlestone (1881–1950)[4] was the first Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and thereby the first professor of orthopaedics in Britain.

Works

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References

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  1. ^ Salthouse History
  2. ^ St. John's
  3. ^ "Girdlestone, Charles" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. ^ Headington local history
Academic offices
Preceded by
Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
1877-1889
Succeeded by