31 MAY 1935, Page 19

PROFESSOR C. H. TURNER

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.,] SIR,—Janus, in ,your issue of May 17th, 1935, with referents to the lamented death of Professor F. C. Burkitt of Cambridge, expressed the belief (though he invited contradiction) that Dr. Burkitt was the only layman who has ever, so far, occupied a chair of Divinity. I expected the contradiction to come from a more influenrkil pen than mine ; but, since this has not been so, may I mention the late Dr. C. H. Turner, a very distin- guished lay Divinity Professor of Oxford, who died—I speak offhand—about 1932 ?—Yours, &e., J.. G. HOWE. 18 Vale Square, Ramsgate.