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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Holmes
(1748-1805) was an English churchman and academic, Dean of Winchester
and a biblical scholar known for textual studies of the Septuagint. He
was baptised at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, on 30 November 1748,
the son of Edmund Holmes of that parish. He became a scholar of
Winchester College in 1760, and went to New College, Oxford,
matriculating on 3 March 1767. He won the chancellor's prize for Latin
verse, the subject being 'Ars Pingendi,' in 1769, the year of it
institution. He proceeded B.A. in 1770, was elected fellow of his
college, and graduated M.A. in 1774, B.D. in 1787, and D.D. In 1789. He
was presented to the college rectory of Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire.
His first publication was a sermon preached before the university of
Oxford, entitled The Resurrection of the Body deduced from the
Resurrection of Christ, 1777 (2nd edit. 1779).
