Robert Baker Girdlestone
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
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]
Works
- Synonyms of the Old Testament.'
- 'The Student’s Deuteronomy'
- 'Grammar of Prophecy'
- 'Dies Irae: the judgement of the great day, viewed in the light of scripture and conscience' (1869)
- 'The Final Judgment and Future Prospects of Mankind' (1872)
Family
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.
References
- ^ Salthouse History
- ^ St. John's
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Headington local history
