DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S. REV. W. R. INGE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 96, 25 April 1911, Page 7

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S. REV. W. R. INGE.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 25, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, 24th April. The Rev. W. JR. Inge, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, succeeds Dr. Gregory as Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. [The Rev. William Ralph Inge, D.D., has been Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge since 1907. Born at Crayke, Yorkshire, in 1860, th© eldest son of the late Rev. William Inge, D.D., provost of Worcester College, Oxford, lie was. educated at Eton, King's College (Cambridge), and had a distinguished scholastic career, being Bell scholar and Porson prizeman in 1880, Porson scholar in 1881, Craven scholar and Brown medallist in 1882, Senior Chancellor medallist in 1883, first-class in classics in iot>2 and 1883, and Hare prizeman in 1885. From 1884 to 1888 he was an assistant master at Eton, a fellow of King's College from 1886-88, a fellow and tutor of Hereford College, Oxford, from 1889 to 1904, select preacher at Oxford 1893-95, and 1903-05, and select preacher at Cambridge in 1901, 1906, and 1910, For a time he was, in turn, Bampton lecturer, examining chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield, and Paddock lecturer, New York. From 1905 to 1907 he was vicar of All Saints', Ennismore-gardens, London. His publications include : "Society in Rome Under the Caesars," "Christian Mysticism," "Faith and Knowledge," etc. Dr. Gregory, Dean of St. Paul's since 1891, was born in 1819.]