Key Information
Reference code
KA/IC/L/41
Title
Letters, Dec 1863, to the Secretary of King’s College London relating to the appointment of Stanley Leathes to the Chair of Hebrew
Date(s)
- 1863 Dec 1 - 1863 Dec 11 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
9pp
Scope and content
Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London regarding the [successful] application of Stanley Leathes (1830-1900), Lecturer of Divinity and Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature, for the Chair of Hebrew and the Exegesis of the Old Testament, including testimonials from George Elwes Corrie (1793-1885), Master of Jesus College, Cambridge; Osmond Fisher (1817-1914), Church of England clergyman and geologist; William Aldis Wright (1831-1914), Librarian at Trinity College Cambridge; Charles Spread Townsend, Lecturer of Classical Literature.