| Honorific Prefix: | The Reverend | ||||||||
| William Emery Barnes | |||||||||
| Birth Name: | William Emery Barnes | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | 26 May 1859 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Islington, England | ||||||||
| Death Place: | Exeter, England | ||||||||
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William Emery Barnes (1859–1939) was an English academic,[1] most notably Hulsean Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1901 until 1934.
Barnes was born on 26 May 1859 in Islington. He was educated at Islington Proprietary School and Peterhouse, Cambridge.
He was ordained in 1884 and served his title at St John's Church, Waterloo. He was a lecturer in Hebrew at Clare College, Cambridge, from 1885 to 1894; and in divinity at Peterhouse, Cambridge, from 1889 to 1901. He was Dean of Peterhouse from 1920 to 1921; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Peterborough from 1920 to 1927; and Canon Theologian of Leicester from 1932 until his death[2] on 17 August 1939 in Exeter.