Biblical Scholar and Theologian Henry Wheeler Robinson

Abstract

"We are celebrating the centenary of the birth of a great man and a great scholar and I feel honoured that I have been asked to be your spokesman on this auspicious occasion, charged to pay tribute to one whose name is indelibly inscribed in the tradition of this college*. It is not of his achievements as principal that I am to speak; there must be many here in a much better position than I am to assess them. In that connection, so far as he or the present principal are concerned, all that I need say is: "Si monumentum requiris circumspice." It is only those who were privileged to teach or study here who can testify to what it meant to be led or taught by such a man as Principal Wheeler Robinson. I have been brought in from outside from another country (though one indeed in which he studied and ministered for some time) and from another denomination to speak about his notable achievement as Biblical scholar and theologian."