Education
Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin, and at Evangelical Union Theological Academy, Glasgow. Master of Arts Oxfordshire. by decree of Convocation. Doctor of Divinity Edinburgh, 1878, Yale, 1889.
Doctor of Laws Aberdeen, 1894. Doctor of Literature Oxfordshire. 1903, and Leeds; D.l). of Wales, and of Manchester.
Doctor of Theology Gottingen, 1909. An original Fellow of the British Academy.
Career
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Fellow of the Northern Academy. Minister Evangelical Union Congregational Church, Bathgate, West Lothian, 1860-1872.
Of E.U. Congregational Church, St. Paul Street, Aberdeen, 1872 - 77. Principal of Airedale College, 1877 - 1886. Of Mans field College, Oxford, from its foundation, 1886-1909.
Muir Lecturer University of Edinburgh, 1878-1882. Gifford Lecturer University of Aberdeen, 1892-1894. Lyman Beecher Lecturer University of Yale, 1891-1892.
Chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales, 1883. Member of Royal Commission on Secondary Education, 1894-1895. Went to India to deliver the Haskell Lectures, 1898-1899.
Member of the Theological Board and Theological Examiner in the University of Wales, 1895-1904. Member of the Advisory Committee to the Theological Faculty in the University of Manchester, 1904. Member of Royal Commission on Endowments of Welsh Church, 1906.