Reverend Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Bishop Designate of Durham Size:XS: 25 x 20cm Irish journalist and MP

Irish journalist and MP

Arts and Literature

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19th century (late 19th or early 20th century)

28th May 1952

Reverend Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Bishop Designate of Durham Size:XS: 25 x 20cm Irish journalist and MPReverend Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Bishop Designate of Durham, 1880. He became the bishop of Durham in 1879. For a period of ten years he was a member of the New Testament Company of Revisers. Their Revised New Testament caused a public outcry when published. He was a strong advocate of the founding of a universty in Liverpool because of the size of the population, and in 1880 the Liverpool University College was founded. From Men of Mark: a gallery of