Canon Robert Baker Girdlestone (1836–1923) was an Anglican priest, first principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and Hebrew scholar, best known for his reference work Synonyms of the Old Testament.
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Robert Baker Girdlestone was the seventh son of Charles Girdlestone, a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.[1] R. B. Girdlestone was minister of St. John's[2] Downshire Hill, Hampstead, then head of the translation department of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and first principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, in the post from from 1877 to 1889.[3]
His third son Gathorne Robert Girdlestone (1881–1950)[4] was the first Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and thereby the first professor of orthopaedics in Britain.