Alexander Souter (1873-1949) was Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis at Oxford, 1903-11, and Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen, 1911-37. Details are given in Who Was Who.

Letters to Alexander Souter, mainly from scholars and churchmen, with similar letters to Cuthbert Hamilton Turner, successively Professor of Ecclesiastical History and of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford.

The letters were bequeathed to the Library by Souter in 1949.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 41572-92.

Theology

Souter | Alexander | 1873-1949 | Classical and Biblical Scholar and Palaeographer

Turner | Cuthbert Hamilton | 1860-1930 | Theologian and Historian

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