17 MAY 1935, Page 6

Dr. Burkitt was, I believe, the only layman to hold

a divinity professorship at Oxford or Cambridge: So at least I am assured, though I invite contradiction. A great textual critic and a great higher critic, he was convinced Churchman of the broadest kind. But he was before all things a characteristic Cambridge figure, perhaps the most characteristic since Monty James returned to Eton. 'He summed up in his "person all the best Cambridge has to offer in culture and generous sympathies. His death at 70 is sadly premature.

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