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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot was Bishop of Durham from until his death in He is regarded as one of the greatest New Testament and patristic scholars of the Anglican tradition.

He was born in Liverpool, on April 13, , where his father was an accountant.

He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, under James Prince Lee, afterwards Bishop of Manchester. His contemporaries included Brooke Foss Westcott and Edward White Benson. In Lightfoot went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and read for his degree along with Westcott.

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He graduated senior classic and 30th wrangler, and was elected a fellow of his college. From to he edited the Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology. In he became tutor and his fame as a scholar grew. He was made Hulsean professor in , and shortly afterwards chaplain to the Prince Consort and honorary chaplain in ordinary to Queen Victoria.

In he was Whitehall preacher, and in he became canon of St Paul's Cathedr