The Rev'd Professor Ernest Nicholson, FBA, DD
Born 1938, died Dec. 2013. Portadown Northern Ireland.
Education: Hart Memorial Primary School, Technical School
(1951-3), Portadown College (1953-6); 1956 County Scholarship to
Trinity College Dublin, reading Semitic Languages (Hebrew, Arabic,
Aramaic, and Syriac); Foundation Scholar; 1st in the Final BA
Examinations 1960. 1960-62 Scholarship for Advanced Study in the
Humanities at Glasgow University where I began work for my Ph.D.
(completed in 1964)
1962-67 Lecturer in the School of Semitic Languages at Trinity
College Dublin
1967 Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge
1967-79 University Lecturer in Divinity at Cambridge, Fellow of
University College (now Wolfson College) 1967-69; 1969-79 Fellow &
Chaplain of Pembroke College, Dean from 1973-79
1979-90 Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at
the University of Oxford and Fellow of Oriel College
1987 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
1990 Elected Provost of Oriel College, holding office until my
retirement in 2003
1993-2003 Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
1992-5 Member of the Council of the British Academy 1992-5; Chairman
of Section H2 at the British Academy from 1997-2003
1993-2000 Chairman of the Jardine Foundation
1995-2000 Chairman of St Augustine Foundation Canterbury (appointed
by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishop of London)
1998-2004 Member of the Board of Governors of the English Speaking
Union
2007- Member of the Council and of the Academic Board of the
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Examination in Theology
Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Wolfson College
Cambridge, Oriel College Oxford, St Peter’s College Oxford.
At various times Visiting Professor or Select Lecturer at
Universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, and on the Continent of
Europe
Outline CV (for further details see entry in Who's Who)
Professor Ernest Nicholson was installed as Provost of Oriel
College, Oxford, by The Queen in 1990.
See Memorial section for full obituary. |