A FAMOUS FOUNDATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1473, 22 June 1912, Page 6

A FAMOUS FOUNDATION.

TBI-:.NEWi ISAMI'TOX LECTURER

. "'lie latest English papers announce that "appointed.'Bamptou At rOxiord.; i'oi' :101'i. This -is .tho hpSt^fanious.:: 1 -,leetureship■. connected .with has- been held iby' siich ; distinguished.'scholars as . Jiebar, ,Whate!ey,-.Moaieyf;ilaiiacl,- Lid'doji, Hatch, llHnjrworth, Inge, and ■'Gore.Tho, last Hampton T.ecturi'r • (iflll) ' was the Rev. j; Ji.. ykiinc, his subject being "The Creed- and ■ thb-.C'reeds:' Their .Function in ''Religion." ••-The'.first .lecturer was choson :'irii779S:The, lectureship,:' indefenceof tho,;Christiarif faith* was founded by the' Rev. 'Jolm-Hampton iS'it , ..will dated 1750, with :certain:regulatioris-.Wvhich■ have'-been modi-fied-by tiio-High Court, on petition from .thbi-.Uiiiversity-'of Oxford in 1910, go that , iii'U'uturo-thoilecturcs' will legally bo do-livei-ed. biennially, 4 -asi has; recently • been : tlioVcus.toni; v insteads. , 'of-' annually, and ' tho . stipend', of ' the. lecturer . will bo.,'- not ■ less .ithanVilso.' ,,, .and , : , .not , ?:niorOf.;thnn~i£2oo.,. ft The Rev. G; IMmuiulson lias . had - a 'distingiiislied. earesr. both u's a lnathema--■■'tici'an' .-a,-iirst-class i i'n : mathc!naties.at'.Osfor'd:'in'lß7o;'''and was ■« ; nio'i' , '- , iiiid;'Jolinsori ; - mathematical: scholar ;in .1872. ' Ho took" ■ the'.- Greek' Testament iipi'ize'iii? 1 1873,' : -' arid:: .was-', ajellowitof-lirase- • Collide-, from IS7I to 1K ; 0 ;.v lecturer ?'(.187ir75); tutor (1575-80 examiner?' (1875-(,G) \ - 'iii(l ,'l| ord s -■ lectinei i .'in :^ Oiiigiisli-'i'.ilistory' u( 1 'JQ9-10). >- ITo':-i s the Author,of "MiUottfandfY.ondel; a-Curiosity I'pf Laud !^d! f His4Vork',"'^anit f ot .;£■ Modern -'J'inios.** -i':' : -V ■'''■^fo'-"Church-XT^ of }ir. Ediiumdson:.to: deliyer- th-v lectures 1 "has caused no lit tie: etirprii-s'," but does; j .not say- why.. ...f ■