Leathes, STANLEY

Leathes, STANLEY, was born at Ellesborough, Bucks, where his father was rector, March 21, 1830. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. in 1852; took orders four years later; and, after serving several curacies, became in 1863 professor of Hebrew in King's College, London, and in 1869 minister of St Philip's, Regent Street. He was Boyle lecturer (1868-70), Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1873, Bampton lecturer at Oxford in 1874, and Warburtonian lecturer at Lincoln's Inn (1876-80). Further preferments were a prebend in St Paul's (1876) and the rectory of Cliffe at Hoo, near Gravesend (1880). Leathes was made D.D. by Edinburgh in 1878, and sat on the Old Testament Revision Committee. His books include The Witness of the Old Testament to Christ (Boyle Lectures), The Gospel its own Witness (Hulsean), Religion of the Christ (Bampton), Studies in Genesis (1880), The Foundations of Morality (1882), Christ and the Bible (1885), and several volumes of sermons. He died in May 1900.