Thom's Irish Who's Who/Strahan, Rev. Professor James

STRAHAN, Rev. Professor James, M.A., D.D.; Professor of Hebrew and Biblical Criticism in the McCrea-Magee College, Londonderry, from 1915. Educ.: Grammar School, Old Aberdeen; King's College, Aberdeen; New College, Edinburgh; Universities of Tôbingen and Berlin; was Hebrew Tutor, New College, Edinburgh, 1885-1890: Minister of St. Fergus Free Church, 1890-1903; Belgrave Presbyterian Church, London, 1903-10; Cunningham Lecturer Edinburgh, 1915; Smyth Lecturer, Londonderry, 1916. Pubns.: Hebrew Ideals (2 vols.), 1903-6; The Captivity and Pastoral Epistles, 1910; The Book of Job, 1913; The Maréchale, 1914; Life of Professor A. B. Davidson, 1917; Judges and Ruth, 1919; Memoir of Mary Crawford Brown, 1920; contributions to Theological Review, Critical Preview, Expository Times, and Hastings' Dictionaries. Recns.: cycling and mountain-climbing; b. in Aberdeenshire, 1863; m. 1909, Catherine Evangeline Booth-Clibborn, grand-dau. of General Booth, and has issue two sons and one dau. Res.: 7 College Avenue, Londonderry.