Gerald Henry Rendall

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Gerald Henry Rendall (1851-1945) was an English educator, born at Harrow, where his father was assistant master. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became fellow and where he was lecturer and assistant tutor in 1875-80. He was principal of University College, Liverpool, and Gladstone professor of Greek in 1880-97, and then the head master of Charterhouse School 1897- 1911. He did valuable work on earlier Christian (and contemporary) authors, publishing:

  • Text and Commentary to Epistle of Barnabas (1877), edited by Cunningham
  • The Emperor Julian, Paganism, and Christianity (1879), Hulsean prize essay for 1876
  • versions of Marcus Aurelius (1897, 1901)
  • Epistles to the Corinthians (1909)
  • Charterhouse Sermons (1911)
  • John Smith, of Harrow (1912)

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