The Reverend James Ernest Davey (1890–1960) was an Irish Presbyterian minister, historian and theologian who was acquitted on charges of heresy in 1927 and elected Moderator of the General Assembly

Moderator of the General Assembly

The Moderator of the General Assembly is the chairperson of a General Assembly, the highest court of a presbyterian or reformed church. Kirk Sessions and Presbyteries may also style the chairperson as moderator....

 of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland

Presbyterian Church in Ireland

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in 1951.

Education

Davey was born on 24 June 1890 in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, the eldest child of the Rev Charles Davey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Margaret. When Ernest was one the family moved to Belfast.

Theologian and Historian

From 1917 until his death in 1960 he was on the staff of the Presbyterian college, in Belfast, variously occupying the four chairs of church history; biblical literature and Hellenistic Greek; Hebrew and Old Testament; and New Testament language, literature, and theology.