Robert Sinker: Manuscript Collations c. 1874-1892

Guidi,Ignazio 1844-1935

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Sinker, Robert, 1838-1913

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Sinker, Robert

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Robert Sinker (1838-1913), biblical scholar, was born in Liverpool on 17 July 1838. He attended the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1858 (B.A., 1862; M.A., 1865; B.D., 1880; D.D., 1890). He was ordained deacon in 1863, and priest in 1864. Sinker was curate of Coton, Cambridgeshire, 1863-1866, chaplain of Trinity College, 1865-1871, and librarian at Trinity, 1871-1907. He died on 5 March 1913. From the guide to the Robert Sinker: Manusc...

Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, 1843-1920

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Margaret Dunlop Gibson, along with her twin sister, Agnes Smith Lewis, was a scholar of Semitic Languages. Born in Scotland and educated by their father the sisters traveled to the Middle East and Egypt several times before eventually settling in Cambridge, England. In 1883, Margaret married James Young Gibson, essayist and translator; but she was widowed after only three years of marriage. In 1892 they visited Egypt again, and at St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai they famously discovered the...