Thom's Irish Who's Who/White, Rev. Newport John Davis

WHITE, Rev. Newport John Davis, M.A., D.D. (T.C.D.); M.R.I.A; Archbishop King's Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin from 1916; Assistant to the Prof, of Hebrew from 1897; Canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, from 1906; Keeper of Marsh's Library from 1898; Member of General Synod from 1911. Educ. Rathmines School; Trinity College, Dublin (Scholar, 1880; Vice-Chancellor's Prize for English Prose; Gold Medal for Latin, 1882; Senior Moderator in Classics, First Senior Moderator in Modern Literature, Brooke Prize, 1883; First Theological Exhibition, 1885); was Curate of Bowdon, Cheshire, 1885-87; St. John's, Birkenhead, 1888-90; Private Teacher of Theology, 1890-97; Assistant Lecturer in Divinity and Hebrew in the University of Dublin, 1897-1907; Lecturer in the English Bible, 1898-1915; Professor of Biblical Greek, 1906-16; Deputy for the Regius Professor of Divinity, 1907-16; Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, 1913-21. Pubns.: Contributor to Hastings' Dict. of the Bible and to Hastings' Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels; Critical Edition of the Latin Writings of St. Patrick, 1905; Edited Dr. Salmon's posthumous Human Element in the Gospels, 1907; Author of Commentary on Pastoral Epistles in Expositor's Greek Testament, 1910: St. Patrick: his Life and Writings, 1920; son of late Rev. Henry Vere White, M.A., Incumbent of Swift's Alley Church, Dublin, and Lucy Reeves, dau. of Hill Wilson, Solicitor, of Dublin; b. 16th Feb., 1860; m. Ethel Catherine, dau. of Rev. George Kirkpatrick, M.A., Rector of Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, and has issue one son and three daus. Res.: 32 Kenilworth Square, Dublin.