Background
WHITEHOUSE, Owen Charles was born on November 15, 1849 in Palamcottah, South India. Son of Reverend J. O. Wliitehouse, formerly missionary in Travancore.
WHITEHOUSE, Owen Charles was born on November 15, 1849 in Palamcottah, South India. Son of Reverend J. O. Wliitehouse, formerly missionary in Travancore.
Studied at Amersham Hall School, near Reading. University» College London (1866-1870). Cheshunt College (1872-1874).
University of Bonn (1876-1877). Master of Arts (London). Doctor of Divinity; Master of Arts (Cambridge Christ’s College).
Matriculated London University, 1866, with Gilchrist Scholarship. Master of Arts Branch I. (Classics), 1876. Professor of Hebrew and Classics in Cheshunt College, 1877-1895.
Member of Faculty of Theology, Board of Thee logical and of Oriental Studies, University of London, 1901-1906. Examiner in Hebrew. Publications. translated, with additions, Schrader’s Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament (2 vols.). Primer of Hebrew Annuities, 1895.
Contributions to Doctor Hastings' Bible Diet., to Encyclopaedia Biblica, and to Ency. Brit (new ed.), also to Critical Review, Expository Times, Interpreter, and Expositor. Temple Bible (Ezekiel).
Commentary on Isaiah in Century Bible. Old Test. Books. Honourable Aber.; Principal and Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Theology in the Countess of Huntingdon’s College, Cheshunt, 1895-1905; Senior Theological tutor after its removal to Cambridge.