NEW MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2632, 30 November 1915, Page 4

NEW MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

APPOINTMENT OF DR. EW BARNES. ' '

■•The King lias approved the appointment of the Rev Ernest "William Barnes, Sc.D., F.R.S., Fellow, Lecturer, and Tutor of Trinity College Cambridge, to be Master of tiho Temple in succession to the late Dr. Woods. Di, Dames, who is only forty-on© years of age, has had an exceptionally brilliant career. He went up to Cambridge as a Scholar of Trinity College and graduated in 1896, when lie was bracketed as Second Wrangler. \ In the following year ho took a First Class in the First Division of the Mathematical Tripos, Bart 11, and was First Smith's Prizeman in. 1808. He was President of the Union in 1897 and-in 1898 was elected a Fellow of Trinity College. In 1898-9 he was instructor in Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich. Ho was ordained in 1902' when he became Lecturer in Mathematics at Trinity College. He was Junior Dean from 1000 to 1908, and was then appointed He was. Select Preacher at Cambridge in 1906, 1907 and 1910, and in 1906 was appointed Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Llandaff.- Dr. Barnes is the author of various papers on' Pure Mathematics He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, of which he is a Governor. He gained the distinction of So.l). in 1906, and F.R.S. in 1909. Ejccept for one year's teaching at Woolwich Academy, Dr.. Barnes has resided continuously at Cambridge.. Lecturing' arid administrative duties have hitherto allowed little' scope for outside preaching, though ho has been heard recently at St. Paul's and.Westminster Abbey, and he is select preaclier at Oxford. Understanding modern thought, and yet critical ; to weigh it'; liberal,'and yet.detached from party allegiances; young enough to develop as preacher and thinker, ho should prove a strength to tbo Church ;n London.