Plummer, Alfred

D.D. (Durham, 1882), Church of England; b. at He worth parsonage, on the Tyne, Feb. 17, 1841; was Gifford exhibitioner of Exeter College, Oxford; first-cla in moderations in 1861; graduated B.A. (second-cla cla ics) 1863, M.A. (of Trinity College) 1866; ordained deacon, 1866; fellow of Trinity College, 1864-74; tutor and dean, 1867-74; master of the schools, 1868; pro-proctor, 1873; master of University College, Durham, 1874; senior proctor, 1877. In June, 1871, he bore the degree of D.D. by diploma sent by the University of Oxford to Dr. von Dollinger, one of whose last students he had been (1870 and 1872), and whom he had met at the Bonn re-union conferences of 1874 and 1875. Dr. Plummer translated Dollinger's Fables respecting the Popes, London, 1871; Prophecies and list us, Edinburgh, 1876 (each with additional original matter); and has also published Intemperate Criticism, Durham, 1879; and written on SS. Peter and Jude, in Ellicott's Commentary, London, 1879; on St. John's Gospel (1880, 2d ed. 1884) and Epistles (1883), in The Cambridge Bible; on St. John's Gospel, in Cambridge Greek Testament, 1882; and the Historical Introduction in The Pulpit Commentary, London, 1880.