Sinker, Robert

Church of England; b. in Liverpool, July 17, 1838; graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. (wrangler and second-cla cla ical tripos), 1862; first-cla theological tripos, Scholefield prizeman, and Cro e scholar, 1863 Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar and Hulsean prizeman, 1864; M.A., 1865; Norrisian prizeman, 1868; B.D., 1880; chaplain of Trinity College, 1865; librarian, 1871. He edited Testament a xii. Patriarch arum (Cambridge and Oxford MSS.), Camb., 1869, Appendix (collation of Roman and Patmos manuscripts), 1879; Catalogue of Fifteenth- Century Books in Library of Trinity College, 1876; Pearson on the Creed, 1881; Catalogue of English Books printed before 1601 in Library of Trinity College, 1885; and, besides numerous articles in Smith and Cheetham's Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, has published The Characteristic Differences between the Books of the New Testament and the Immediately Preceding Jewish and the Immediately Succeeding Christian Literature, considered' as an Evidence of the Divine Authority of the New Testament, 1865; and the translation of the " Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs," in Clark's Ante-Nicene Library, 1872.