DRIVER, SAMUEL ROLLES (1846-1914); English di vine and Hebrew scholar, was born in Southampton on Oct. 2, 1846. He was educated at Winchester and New college, Oxford.
He was a fellow (1870) and a tutor (1875) of New college, and in 1883 succeeded Pusey as regius professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church. He was a member of the Old Testa ment revision committee (1876-84) and examining chaplain to the bishop of Southwell (1884-1904). He died on Feb. 26, 1914. Dr. Driver devoted his life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament. Among his numerous works are commen taries on the books of the Old Testament. His Introd. to the Liter ature of the Old Test. (1897, 9th ed., 1913) became a standard work, and exercised great influence on younger scholars. His other most important work in Hebrew scholarship is to be found in his contributions to the Oxford Heb. and Eng. Lexicon of the O.T. (1906). A bibliography of his works is given in appendix B to Cooke's edition of Ideals of the Prophets (1915) .