James Bethune-Baker

James Franklin Bethune-Baker was the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1911 to 1935.
Bethune-Baker was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. A Modern Churchman, he was known for his work on the person and writings of Nestorius. He was co-editor of the Journal of Theological Studies from 1904 to 1935. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College for sixty years. His funeral service took place in Pembroke College Chapel on 17 January 1951, but he was buried in the Ascension Parish [Burial Ground, Cambridge]. He was a cousin of Arthur Christopher Benson, who is also buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground.
He was married to Edith Bethune-Baker, Furneaux Jordan, a welfare campaigner, who was born in 1862. Their son Arthur Bethune-Baker was a contemporary of Charles Hamilton Sorley at Marlborough College, but he died while still at school, aged sixteen.

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