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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Joseph Rawson Lumby (1831–1895)

Lumby, Joseph Rawson. An English clergyman, editor, and author; born at Stanningley, Leeds, July 18, 1831; died at Grant, Chester, Nov. 21, 1895. For the Early English Text Society he edited ‘King Horn,’ ‘Ratis Raving,’ etc.; for the Pitt Press, Sir Thomas More’s ‘Life of Richard III.’ and ‘Utopia.’ He wrote: ‘A History of the Creed’ (1873); ‘A Popular Introduction to the New Testament’ (1883); and a work on ‘Greek Learning in the Western Church during the Seventh and Eighth Centuries.’