Gerald Henry Rendall was an English

English people

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 educator and college administrator, born at Harrow

Harrow, London

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, where his father was assistant master. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge

Cambridge

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, graduating BA as 4th Classic in 1874. He was a fellow and assistant tutor at Trinity from 1875 to 1880. He was principal of University College, Liverpool

Liverpool

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, and Gladstone Professor of Greek

Gladstone Professor of Greek

The Gladstone Chair of Greek was one of the original endowments of the foundation of the University of Liverpool in 1881. The Chair was named in recognition of the scholarship of W E Gladstone, the British prime minister, and the close association of the Gladstone family with Liverpool.With the...

 in 1880-97, and then the head master of Charterhouse School

Charterhouse School

Charterhouse School, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in Charterhouse, or more simply Charterhouse or House, is an English collegiate independent boarding school situated at Godalming in Surrey.Founded by Thomas Sutton in London in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian...

 1897-1911. From 1891 to 1895 he was also Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University

Victoria University (UK)

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. He published on earlier Christian

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 (and contemporary) authors.

Works

• Text and Commentary to Epistle of Barnabas
  Barnabas
  Barnabas , born Joseph, was an Early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem. In terms of culture and background, he was a Hellenised Jew, specifically a Levite. Named an apostle in , he and Saint Paul undertook missionary journeys together and defended Gentile converts...
  
  (1877), edited by Cunningham
  Alexander Cunningham
  Sir Alexander Cunningham KCIE CSI was a British archaeologist and army engineer, known as the father of the Archaeological Survey of India...
  
  
• The Emperor Julian, Paganism, and Christianity (1879), Hulsean prize essay for 1876
• versions of Marcus Aurelius (1897, 1901)
• Epistles to the Corinthians (1909)
• Charterhouse Sermons (1911)
• John Smith, of Harrow (1912)