James E. Davey

James Ernest Davey (1890–1960) was a Northern Irish Presbyterian minister, historian, and theologian who was acquitted on charges of heresy in 1927^{[citation needed]} and elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland in 1953.

Education

Davey was born on 24 June 1890 in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, the eldest child of the Rev Charles Davey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Margaret. When Ernest was one the family moved to Belfast. He attended both Methodist College Belfast and Campbell College before graduating in 1912 from King's College, Cambridge.^[1]

Theologian and historian

From 1917 until his death in 1960 he was on the staff of the Presbyterian college, in Belfast, variously occupying the four chairs of church history; biblical literature and Hellenistic Greek; Hebrew and Old Testament; and New Testament language, literature, and theology.

References

1. Froggat, Richard. "Rev Ernest Davey (1890 - 1960): Theologian; ecclesiastical historian". The Dictionary of Ulster Biography. Retrieved 29 July 2016.

Academic offices
Preceded by James Heron	Professor of Church History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1917-1922	Succeeded by Francis J Paul
Preceded by Matthew Leitch as Professor of Biblical Criticism	Professor of Biblical Literature and Hellenistic Greek of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1922-30	Succeeded by David Smith as Professor of New Testament Interpretation and Homiletics
Preceded by Thomas Walker as Professor of Hebrew	Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1930-33	Succeeded by Hugh Alexander Irvine as Professor of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology
Preceded by David Smith as Professor of New Testament Interpretation and Homiletics	Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1933-1960	Succeeded by Edward Augustine Russell as Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology
Preceded by Francis James Paul	Principal of Assembly's College, Belfast 1942-1960	Succeeded by James Loughridge Mitchell Haire
Presbyterian Church titles
Preceded by John Knox Leslie McKean (1952)	Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1953	Succeeded by John Knowles (1954)