George Duncan (biblical scholar)

George Simpson Duncan OBE (1884–1965) was a Scottish New Testament scholar and Church of Scotland minister.

He served with the Royal Army Chaplains' Department in the First World War. He was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours.[1]

He was professor of biblical criticism at the University of St Andrews from 1919, and principal of St Mary's College from 1940, retiring from both in 1954.

He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1949.

References

  1. ↑ "No. 31092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1919. p. 7.
  • Cameron, Nigel M de S (1993). Dictionary of Scottish Church History & Theology. Edinburgh: T & T Clark Ltd. ISBN 0567096505. Article Duncan, George Simpson by F F Bruce
  • Reid, J. K. S. "Duncan, George Simpson". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32930. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)



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