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John James Stewart Perowne

1823–1904

Clergyman and Biblical scholar. Born in Bengal. BA, Cambridge, 1845. Fellow of Corpus Christi from 1849; select preacher to the college. Moved to Wales after his marriage in 1862 and held a number of clerical positions there. Hulsean Professor of divinity, Cambridge, 1875–78. Dean of Peterborough from 1878. Bishop of Worcester, 1891–1901.

Source

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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