Rendal, Gerald Henry

RENDALL, GERALD HENRY: Church of England; b. at Harrow (10 m. n.w. of London) Jan. 25, 1851. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1874; fellow, 1875; M.A., 1877; B.D., 1909), where he was fellow and assistant tutor until 1880; was made deacon, 1898, and priest, 1899; was lecturer and assistant tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge (1875–80); was principal and Gladstone professor of Greek at University College, Liverpool (1881–98); vice-chancellor of Victoria University (1890–94); a member of the Gresham University Committee (1892–93); and Lady Margaret preacher at Cambridge, 1901. Since 1898 he has been head master of the Charterhouse School. In theology he is a liberal Anglican. He prepared an edition, translation, and commentary of the Epistle of Barnabas for W. Cunningham's Dissertation on the Epistle of Saint Barnabas (2 parts, London, 1877) and the life of Pliny for J. E. B. Mayor's edition of the third book of the Epistolæ (1880), besides translating the "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius (1898); and has written The Emperor Julian, Paganism, and Christianity (Cambridge, 1879) The Cradle of the Aryans (London, 1889); and The Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians: a Study personal and historical of the Date and Composition of the Epistles (1909).