Atkinson, Basil Ferris Campbell

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Name (Latin)
Atkinson, Basil Ferris Campbell
Other forms of name
Atkinson, B. F. C. (Basil Ferris Campbell)
Atkinson, B. F. C
Date of birth
1895
Date of death
1971
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 82585049
Wikidata: Q4867103
Library of congress: nr 94038736
Sources of Information
  • Is the Bible true? 1934:t.p. (Basil F.C. Atkinson)
  • RLIN, 11/16/94(hdg.: Atkinson, Basil Ferris Campbell; usage: B.F.C. Atkinson, Basil F.C. Atkinson)
  • LCN

Wikipedia description:

Basil Ferris Campbell Atkinson (1895–1971) was the under-librarian of the University of Cambridge and Keeper of Manuscripts from 1925 to 1960, and a writer on theology. He was born in Tonbridge, Kent and attended Tonbridge School before, in 1919, entering Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read for a Classics degree and took a double first. He went on to obtain a Ph.D. in 1926. He was actively involved with the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union for many years and in the formation of the Inter Varsity Fellowship (now the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship), and also as a writer of academic literature, and Christian books and Bible commentaries. He remained in Cambridge until his death.

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