Background
CANNEY, Maurice A. was born in March 1872 in London. Son of Reverend Edward Canney, rector of Saint Peter’s, Saffron Hill, Holborn, C., and a Saint Antholin Lecturer at Saint Mary Aldemary, East Central (postal district).
CANNEY, Maurice A. was born in March 1872 in London. Son of Reverend Edward Canney, rector of Saint Peter’s, Saffron Hill, Holborn, C., and a Saint Antholin Lecturer at Saint Mary Aldemary, East Central (postal district).
Studied at Merchant Taylors" School, London. Oxford University. Junior Fish Exhibitioner for Hebrew at Saint John's College, Oxford, 1891. Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew Scholar, 1892.
2nd class Honours in Theology, 1894.
Kennicott Hebrew Scholar, 1895. Senior Fish Exhibitioner at Saint John’son
Houghton Syriac Prizeman, 1896. 2nd class Honours Semitic Languages, 1896.
Master of Arts (Oxfordshire.).
Member of editoral staff, Encyclopedia Biblica, 1897-1903. Hebrew Master at Merchant Taylors’ School, London, 1904. Reviser and contributor Encyclopedia Britannica, 1905.
Student Berlin University, 1906-1907.
Assistant in the Gymnasium, Kolberg, and in the Realgymnasium, Magdeburg, 1908-1909. Assistant Lecturer, Semitic Languages, Manchester University, since 1910.